Objectives: The Défenestrations surveys aim to describe the number, circumstances, severity, and trends of accidental falls from heights involving children. Subject, materials, and...

Accidents in daily life are the most common and the most frequently fatal: they occur 2.5 times more often than traffic accidents. Falls, suffocation, poisoning, drowning, and fires are...

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...

The use of geographic information systems (GIS) in epidemiological studies of environmental health has become commonplace, both for data analysis and for presenting results. To address...

Introduction: Semen analyses conducted on a sample of 26,609 men representative of the general population were used to analyze regional trends in sperm quality over time. The consistency...

Introduction: Early exposure to endocrine disruptors, which are ubiquitous in the environment, may affect the development of reproductive functions. Idiopathic central precocious puberty...

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...

To determine the number of cancer cases attributable to a particular risk factor, it is necessary to know the relative risk and the prevalence of exposure in the general population; the...

Based on a transactional model of stress, this article examines the role of local residents’ attitudes toward an industrial site located in Salindres, in the Gard department (France), in...