Frequently Asked Questions - 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The mandatory reporting forms are available for download in the section dedicated to notifiable diseases, as well as under the "Our Action" tab in each disease-specific thematic file.
Certain urgent diseases require immediate reporting to your regional health agency by any appropriate means, including outside of business hours, to ensure immediate action, before being officially reported using a Cerfa form.
For other diseases, reporting must occur as soon as the disease is suspected and before the diagnosis is biologically confirmed; these include botulism, viral hemorrhagic fevers, anthrax, yellow fever, invasive meningococcal infections, poliomyelitis, measles, and outbreaks of foodborne illness.
Santé publique France is implementing an enhanced health monitoring and surveillance system during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. This system builds on existing surveillance systems, which are being expanded or strengthened to accommodate the monitoring requirements of a major event of this scale.
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Weekly national and regional epidemiological bulletins will be published on our website.
The indicators tracked as part of the JOP and presented in our national and regional weekly monitoring bulletins are based on a multi-source system. They will primarily focus on the analysis of data on hospitalizations, emergency room visits, SOS Médecins calls, SAMU responses, as well as data related to heat waves and wastewater. The bulletins may be supplemented by specific situation reports related to exceptional circumstances.
Indicators will be monitored daily to identify any exceptional events. The results will be reported weekly in the form of a national bulletin and regional bulletins published in the section dedicated to the Olympic Games on our website. A summary version of the weekly national bulletin will also be available in English.
Some of the JOP monitoring indicators are tracked on a routine basis outside of the event; they are already available as open data and will remain accessible on the Géodes mapping platform. In addition, all monitoring indicators at the national and regional levels will be reported in weekly bulletins, available on our website in the section dedicated to the 2024 JOP.
The agency will be actively engaged throughout the summer in preventing health risks associated with the summer season and the Olympic Games. There are plans to step up prevention messages, particularly regarding issues identified as priorities in the risk assessment, such as heat waves, measles, and arboviruses. The distribution of prevention tools and materials produced by Santé publique France has been expanded in light of the influx of non-French-speaking tourists. New materials have also been produced and translated into English.
The prevention documents and tools available for download or purchase can be found in our catalog or under the "Tools" tab in the "Extreme Heat/Heat Wave" section.
The prevention materials and tools available for download or purchase can be found in our catalog or under the "Tools" tab in the vaccination section. You can also find all the relevant information on our website, vaccination-info-service.fr.
Documents and prevention tools related to arboviral diseases are available for download or purchase in our catalog or under the "Tools" tab in the Chikungunya, Dengue, and Zika sections.
As is the case throughout the year, the Health Reserve may be mobilized during the Olympic Games in the event of an exceptional health situation requiring additional personnel (for example, if hospital capacity is overwhelmed while managing an epidemic in a given region).
To become a medical reservist, simply register online. After filling out your profile and uploading all required documents, the platform will provide a contract of service for the Medical Reserve, which you can print, sign, and mail to Santé publique France. The contract is located above the uploaded documents.
Click here to access the registration form
By registering on the reservesanitaire.fr website, you can stay informed about assignments that match your profile. Registration is quick: simply provide your name, status, profession, and phone number.
Subsequently, in order to go on a mission, you must complete your medical reservist file, which includes copies of your national ID card, diplomas, health insurance card, a resume, and a medical certificate of fitness. Depending on your status, other documents may be requested (such as proof of additional employment). It is strongly recommended that you update your file before even receiving an alert matching your profile. However, it often happens that reservists are deployed even though their file is incomplete at the time the alert is received. They then complete it within the deadline for finalizing the mission schedule (less than 24 hours). No medical reservist may be deployed if their file is incomplete.
The government’s strategic stockpile, managed by the pharmaceutical division of Santé publique France, consists of medicines, medical devices, and supplies that are deployed to supplement or replace local resources when they are insufficient to address serious health threats. In the context of major events such as the Olympic Games, the volumes and deployment of response resources—whether strategic or tactical—are adapted based on a mapping of risks and threats and associated scenarios.
It should be noted that, as a first line of defense, strategic stockpiles pre-positioned in the regions are intended to address exceptional public health emergencies. As a supplement to these resources—or should they prove insufficient—strategic stockpiles can be mobilized around the clock, with delivery to regional crisis management authorities within 12 hours of activation.
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