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Epidemiology of Maternal Mortality in France, 1996–2002: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Causes.
Introduction. Maternal mortality is an indicator of the quality of obstetric care. In 1996, France established a surveillance system that includes monitoring rates and causes, as well as...
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Medicine, Standards, and Society: Forensic Medicine as a Public Health Discipline
Historically, forensic medicine has been a medical discipline situated at the intersection of medicine and the legal system, with the forensic pathologist recognized as a specialist in...
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Concepts in environmental health monitoring.
Environmental health surveillance (EHS) can be understood as "public health surveillance of health related to the environment." This allows us to define it by extension from the...
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Health Data for Environmental Health Surveillance: Needs and Prospects.
Current French health data surveillance systems are not suited to the specific needs of environmental health. To provide a scientific response to concerns raised by the public or...
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Environmental health: monitoring to provide early warning.
A health alert is based on the validation of a signal indicating a threat to public health that requires immediate action. Environmental health warning signals have various sources:...
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Environmental Health Surveillance Programs in France: Insights from European and International Research.
For the past decade, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) has been actively contributing to the development of methods for assessing the health impacts of public...
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The use of medical-administrative data and data linkage: the preferred approach to chronic disease surveillance in Quebec.
The use of data from medical-administrative databases and the linking of these databases form the foundation for the development of chronic disease surveillance in Quebec and Canada. By...
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"Preventable" deaths linked to risky behaviors: a public health priority in France.
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Disparities in mortality rates among people aged 64 and older in European Union countries, 2000.
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Disabling low back pain and social circumstances: findings from the HID (Handicap-Incapacity-Dependency) survey, France.
Objectives - To describe the relationship between disabling low back pain and socioeconomic status in France. Methods - The data used were from the 1999 HID national household survey for...
