Objectives. Using data from the Épifane study on infant feeding during the first year of life, this paper presents breastfeeding rates at the maternity ward and at one month of age, and...

Introduction. Since 2004, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de veille sanitaire) has implemented a non-specific surveillance system called SurSAUD®, which...

Introduction.—Storm Klaus swept through southwestern France on Saturday, January 24, 2009, leaving more than 1.7 million households without power, including 477,000 in the Midi-Pyrénées...

Introduction – This article presents an analysis of the epidemiological and virological characteristics of the influenza epidemic that occurred in mainland France during the 2024–25...

Since the 1990s, there has been an increase in the use of emergency departments in France. To reduce this use and prevent the overburdening of emergency departments, various measures...

In France, tuberculosis is a notifiable disease. This article presents the cases reported in 2001 in metropolitan France and the French overseas departments, with a comparison of...

Introduction: The agricultural population differs from other worker populations in that it has a higher rate of suicide-related deaths. As part of the interagency roadmap aimed at...

Introduction: Until recently, public policies have paid little attention to promoting the health of middle-aged adults through a population-based, multifactorial approach, even though...

The upward trend in the number of Legionnaires' disease cases that began in 2017 continued in 2018 (+31%), with 2,133 cases, representing a notification rate in mainland France of 3.2...