When she was training to become a midwife, she was told she would never be able to practice. Twenty years later, Béatrice Idiard-Chamois, who has a disability and uses a wheelchair, is a...

Due to a lack of time and resources, people with disabilities who require care generally do not receive the care, attention, or support they need. According to Élisabeth Zucman, there is...

The significant decline in per capita alcohol consumption over the past fifty years in France is attributable to public health initiatives, which have changed the image of alcohol....

Objective - To conduct a study of premature mortality (occurring before age 65) on a cohort drawn from INSEE’s Permanent Demographic Sample (a sample representative of the French...

Here we report the main results of the first survival study based on the combined data from the cancer registries of the Francim network. Survival data for 205,562 cases registered...

Many cases of hepatitis A and B could be prevented if vaccination recommendations were followed. Furthermore, targeted screening for risk factors would allow for earlier management of...

One of the objectives of the early warning and surveillance systems established by the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance is to detect infectious threats in order to...

Since 1990, the surveillance of childhood cancers in France has been carried out by the National Registry of Malignant Hematological Diseases in Children (RNHE) and, since 2000, by the...

Introduction - Rotaviruses are the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis in children. In the context of vaccination, careful prospective surveillance is required to monitor and...

The French Network of Cancer Registries (Francim), the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS), the Biostatistics Department of the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), and the...