According to the 2000 Health Barometer survey conducted by the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education, 55.2% of people aged 12 to 75 reported having ridden a bicycle in...

The study proposes a method for assessing pollen-related morbidity based on medication usage data derived from prescription coding. The data pertain to the general health insurance...

Objective: To provide not an exhaustive catalog, but a systematic approach to searching for information on environmental health, one that incorporates the concepts of information value...

To assess the impact of foodborne diseases and non-foodborne zoonoses on human health and to establish priorities for the surveillance, prevention, and control of these diseases, the...

Epidemiology has taken on a prominent role in workplace research. Occupational physicians do not always have all the tools needed to understand the fundamentals of epidemiological...

In France, the fight against cancer is a top public health priority. This involves, in particular, improving the epidemiological surveillance system, which is one of the seventy measures...

Accounting for 28% of all deaths, cancer is the second leading cause of death in France. Partly due to the aging population, new cases have increased by 36% over the past 20 years, but...

Currently, when conducting a quantitative health risk assessment, the selection of toxicological reference values (TRVs) relies little on an understanding of the methods used to develop...

Air pollution, waste incineration, the accident at the AZF plant in Toulouse: what are the health risks? How can we assess, monitor, and evaluate policies designed to reduce them? This...