Introduction: The prognosis for late preterm and early term births (35–36 weeks’ gestation and 37–38 weeks’ gestation, respectively) remains unclear during the first year of life....

Introduction: Guadeloupe has a high rate of preterm birth despite access to healthcare comparable to that in mainland France. The launch of a prospective study (the Timoun cohort) in...

Background: Regional Health Agencies (ARS) receive reports of adverse events related to patient care within the healthcare and medico-social services system, which are submitted to...

Introduction: In France, drowning accounts for nearly 500 accidental deaths each summer and, in some cases, leads to serious long-term consequences. The majority of these incidents...

Introduction: The objective of this study was to measure and characterize deaths from everyday accidents in France from 2000 to 2012. Method: The results were derived from a "reference...

Objective: The analysis of mortality data is essential for public health surveillance. Given that deaths are often attributable to multiple diseases, this article presents a new method...

The objective of this study was to describe and quantify the influence of the socioeconomic environment on cancer incidence for each of the 15 most common solid tumors and the three...

Introduction: This study describes the structure of mortality by cause in French Polynesia (FP) from 2005 to 2010 and its trends from 1984 to 2010. This structure is then compared with...

This new study complements the mortality study of a cohort of veterans who were present at French nuclear test sites in the Pacific between 1966 and 1996 and who underwent dosimetric...

Introduction: The objective of the Esprit study, launched in 2003 at the initiative of the Ministry of Health, was to estimate the frequency of healthcare-associated adverse events...