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Strengthening Epidemiological Surveillance in the Wake of Natural Disasters. Special Issue. Epidemiological Disaster Preparedness
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Sickle cell disease-related mortality in France among children and adolescents aged 0 to 18
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Gambling in France in 2014
The study of gambling practices is a relatively recent development in France. Two surveys allow for the study of these behaviors before and after the 2010 legislative changes that...
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Prisons in the Île-de-France region in 2009: Inmates and Drug Use.
The purpose of this article is to examine how addiction treatment is organized in prisons and how it has evolved, as well as how the prison environment tends to concentrate a high...
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National trends and regional variations in the rate of patients undergoing surgery for testicular cancer in France, 1998–2008
Introduction. In 2005, testicular cancer accounted for 0.6% of all cancers in men in France. Its incidence has been steadily increasing for more than 20 years in most industrialized...
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Analysis of the morbidity of a rare disease using data from the Medical Information Systems Program (PMSI): the example of sickle cell disease
Introduction. As part of its surveillance of rare diseases in France, the InVS produces indicators of hospital morbidity based on the PMSI. Sickle cell disease is the first condition for...
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Organizing surveillance based on field observations. An example from a cluster of kidney cancer cases at a company in Allier: from reporting to action, including positive and negative feedback
In January 2003, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) was asked by the Ministries of Health and Labor to investigate a possible excess of kidney cancer cases at a...
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An estimate of sports-related traumatic deaths in mainland France in 2010
Introduction. Physical exercise is beneficial to health, but it can also lead to accidents of varying severity, some of which result in death. The objective of this study was to estimate...
