Objectives: To describe the medical conditions, place of death, hospitalizations, and use of inpatient palliative care (SPH) in the year preceding death. Methods: Individuals covered by...

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....

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of confirmed and borderline subclinical chronic rheumatic heart disease (CRHD) through school-based screening in New Caledonia; to reassess the...

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...

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...

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 most...

Introduction: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a common and serious condition in developed countries. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR), by improving patient outcomes, is a recommended therapy...