Introduction - The objective of this study was to describe, among the population residing in French Polynesia, the risk factors (smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, an unbalanced...

Problem Statement: Epidemiological studies aim to assess the health impact of local sources of environmental pollution by using self-reported health—based on respondents’ perceptions of...

Problem Statement: Epidemiological studies aim to assess the health impact of local sources of environmental pollution by using self-reported health—based on respondents’ perceptions of...

Objectives - In a context of uncertainty, when seeking to determine a health risk associated with population exposure to a chemical substance, it is often necessary to conduct a health...

Introduction: This article presents an experimental multisource surveillance system for acute poisonings that occurred in the Île-de-France region in 2010 and 2011, encompassing all...

Introduction: In the context of an aging population, it seems important to better understand how social inequalities in health evolve over the course of a person’s life. This article...

Introduction: The objective was to describe the prevalence of obesity and underweight among older adults living at home in France and to examine their association with loss of...

The widespread adoption of information technology and the use of the Internet in a wide variety of fields, both professionally and personally, has sparked an unprecedented race to...

The purpose of toxicovigilance is to monitor the acute or chronic toxic effects on humans of a mixture or substance—whether natural or synthetic, available on the market or present in...

Syndromic surveillance emerged in the field of public health surveillance in the late 1990s. Initially proposed as a means of identifying acts of bioterrorism, it failed to convince many...