At the request of the Directorate General for Health, a multidisciplinary commission on thyroid cancer, coordinated by the InVS, analyzed the observed increase in the incidence of...

On December 12, 1999, the oil tanker ERIKA, carrying 28,000 tons of petroleum products, sank off the coast of Brittany. The fuel oil that leaked from the tanks drifted at sea until...

Since the early 1990s, the five coordination centers for the control of nosocomial infections (C.CLIN) have established interregional surveillance networks for surgical site infections...

Conducted among 4,753 respondents, the 2000 Gay Press Survey aimed to assess the state of HIV prevention among gay men living in France. Although most respondents continue to practice...

Addressing the spatio-temporal clusters of non-infectious diseases is complex and requires expertise in multiple fields: health, technical, economic, and social. In similar situations,...

One year after the implementation, in early 2003, of mandatory reporting of HIV infection diagnoses, the number of new HIV diagnoses is estimated at approximately 6,000 in 2003. This...

In 2004, traffic accidents resulted in 5,232 deaths and 108,727 injuries. To date, France lacks a comprehensive epidemiological surveillance system for traffic accidents, covering both...

This analysis of the EPAC database focuses exclusively on accidents occurring in everyday life that took place in a store.

In October 2005, the Department of Health and Social Affairs of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon requested technical support from the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance to...