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Controversy: Are Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation Carcinogenic? Perspectives from Experts at the French Academy of Medicine and the French Academy of Sciences.
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Gender and Social Characteristics of Adolescent Drug Users, France, 2000–2005
Introduction - Recent studies of the adult population suggest that social status influences the use of both legal and illegal psychoactive substances differently among men and women,...
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Women and Addiction in International Literature: Sex, Gender, and Risks.
The international literature on women and addiction distinguishes, on the one hand, between publications dealing with sex—that is, the physiological differences in how psychoactive...
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Editorial. A New Milestone in Monitoring Maternal Mortality.
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Monitoring of occupational exposure in the general population: the Matgéné program.
The Occupational Health Department of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has established and coordinates a program to develop job-exposure matrices tailored to the...
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Cosmop: Analysis of Mortality by Economic Sector.
Introduction - The Cosmop project involves the systematic analysis of a mortality surveillance cohort by occupation and economic sector within the general population. Method - The...
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Deaths from accidents in daily life: nearly 20,000 deaths each year in mainland France.
Statistics on medical causes of death in France are compiled by the Inserm Center for Epidemiology of Medical Causes of Death (CépiDc) based on death certificates. These statistics...
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Medical Exposure of the French Population to Ionizing Radiation for Diagnostic Purposes: A Review of the Situation as of Late 2002 in Preparation for the Implementation of a Monitoring System.
This study took into account exposure resulting from conventional radiology, computed tomography (CT), diagnostic nuclear medicine, and interventional radiology. Its objective was to...
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Response to international health crises: Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbreak, Uíge Province, Angola, 2005.
As of August 23, 2005, Angola’s Ministry of Health reported 374 cases (329 deaths) of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, including 368 cases in the northern province of Uíge. The response to...
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Mortality surveillance systems abroad: two examples.
Mortality surveillance is an essential tool for understanding the health status of a population. Several countries have developed real-time surveillance systems. Two examples are...
