Any consumption of alcohol poses health risks. In France, 41,000 deaths among adults (aged 15 and older) are attributed to alcohol each year. Furthermore, alcohol consumption is the...

Job seekers are more likely to use psychoactive substances—such as tobacco, alcohol, and others. They are also more prone to insomnia and episodes of depression, according to the 2017...

Among job seekers, 13% forgo medical care, and 8% report having suicidal thoughts (see the article “Deteriorating Health Among the Unemployed” in this issue). Christophe Dejours...

Béatrice Idiard-Chamois, a midwife, has established two clinics that are, to the best of our knowledge, the only ones of their kind in France: since 2006, a “Parenting and Disability”...

Management of High Blood Pressure in France: Where Do We Stand? High blood pressure remains the most common chronic disease in France. Its management, which has been shown to be...

The article describes the respective value of data from various cancer surveillance systems, as well as from systems for which cancer surveillance is not the primary objective, for...

Introduction - This study presents national trends in the admission rate for long-term illnesses (ALD) from 1997 to 2009 for 24 types of cancer. Its objective was to compare trends in...

Objective - In France, cancer registries cover only a portion of the departments. To achieve comprehensive coverage in terms of morbidity, the use of medical-administrative databases...

Introduction - In France, an estimated 4.5% to 8% of new cancer cases are believed to be linked to occupational exposure. It is currently not possible to calculate cancer incidence...

Introduction - The objective of this study is to evaluate, for 24 cancer sites, the validity of departmental estimates of cancer incidence based on data from the Long-Term Illness...