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Analysis of the morbidity of a rare disease using data from the Medical Information Systems Program (PMSI): the example of sickle cell disease
Introduction. As part of its surveillance of rare diseases in France, the InVS produces indicators of hospital morbidity based on the PMSI. Sickle cell disease is the first condition for...
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Organizing surveillance based on field observations. An example from a cluster of kidney cancer cases at a company in Allier: from reporting to action, including positive and negative feedback
In January 2003, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) was asked by the Ministries of Health and Labor to investigate a possible excess of kidney cancer cases at a...
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Accidents in daily life
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...
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Descriptive epidemiology of skiing, snowboarding, and sledding accidents based on the Continuous Survey of Accidents in Daily Life (EPAC). Accidents in daily life: a major public health issue
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Lung Cancer Mortality Among French Women: Trend Analysis and Projections Using a Bayesian Age-Cohort Model, 1975–2014
Background: Female lung cancer mortality in France has increased by 3% annually over the past twenty years, reaching 4,500 deaths in 2000. This increase, which has not been observed...
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Neonatal Group B Streptococcus Infections in France: Incidence Data from 1997 to 2006 and Prevention Practices in Maternity Wards
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The mediating role of attitudes in the relationship between industrial pollution and perceived health
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...
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Perceived health status of residents living near a chemical industrial complex: Salindres
To assess the range of health complaints reported by residents living near a chemical industrial complex in Salindres, Gard (France), an epidemiological study focuses on indicators of...
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Commented analysis. Links between particulate matter pollution and mortality in the American Cancer Society cohort: reanalysis of the original results and additional analyses. Special issue. Long-term effects of air pollution: North American studies
This article is a commentary on the following three studies: Pope CA 3rd, Burnett RT, Thun MJ, Calle EE, Krewski D, Ito K, Thurston GD. Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and...
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Commented analysis. Urban air pollution and its association with mortality and the incidence of lung cancer in a cohort of 6,209 Norwegians followed for 27 years. Special issue. Long-term effects of air pollution: European studies
This article is a commentary on the following two studies: Nafstad P, Haheim LL, Wisloff T, Gram F, Oftedal B, Holme I, Hjermann I, Leren P. Urban air pollution and mortality in a cohort...
