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Differing Perceptions of Outdoor Air Pollution: Social and Regional Disparities. How Can We Develop an Equitable Policy?
The "Environmental Health Barometer" survey conducted by the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education (INPES) gathered opinions on environmental and health issues through...
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World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2010 [Editorial]
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Tobacco use by socioeconomic category and industry sector. Methodological tool for epidemiology. Accompanying note
The report "Tobacco Use by Socio-Professional Category and Economic Sector" presents, for the first time in France, estimates of tobacco use by occupation and economic sector. These...
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Health Impacts of Climate Change in France. What Are the Challenges for the InVS?
Several health risks and environmental events that are likely to be exacerbated by climate change are commonly identified in the literature: the emergence or re-emergence of infectious...
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Recommendations for the Surveillance and Control of Animal and Human Anthrax. Methodological Guide
The persistence of animal anthrax outbreaks linked to a terrestrial reservoir—which cannot be eradicated despite the preventive health measures implemented—means that the risk of...
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Report of the InVS/Afsse Task Force on Poison Control Centers and Pharmacovigilance Centers. Proposals for the Organization of Pharmacovigilance. September 2003
Decrees No. 96-833 of September 17, 1996 (on the missions and resources of Poison Control Centers) and No. 99-841 of September 28, 1999 (on the organization of toxicovigilance) failed...
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Preparing for an influenza pandemic. Estimating the impact of an influenza pandemic and analyzing strategies
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Preparing for an influenza pandemic. Estimating the weekly number of hospital admissions and hospital days during an influenza pandemic
As part of the effort to combat influenza pandemics, we conducted an initial study to estimate the epidemiological impact that an influenza pandemic might have in terms of expected...
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Assessment of the completeness of mandatory tuberculosis reporting in Limousin
National surveillance of tuberculosis cases is based on the mandatory reporting system (MR). In 1992–1993, an estimate of the completeness of mandatory reporting for this disease was...
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Preparing for an influenza pandemic
At the request of the Ministry of Health, we estimated the number of health events (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) expected during an influenza pandemic and compared the impact...
