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Evaluation of the 24-Month Health Certificate as a Tool for Measuring Vaccination Coverage in the Bouches-du-Rhône Department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region. 2007–2011
The 24-month health certificate (CS24) is designed to identify health risks in a child’s environment and serves as an epidemiological tool for assessing, among other things,...
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Self-reported measles vaccination coverage among medical and pharmacy students at Aix-Marseille University: reasons for non-vaccination, Marseille, France, 2013
France has recently been affected by a measles outbreak involving healthcare professionals. In 2013, a cross-sectional study was conducted among medical and pharmacy residents at the...
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Tuberculosis Vaccination Coverage in the Bas-Rhin (France) in 2012–2013
Introduction: In 2007, the mandatory BCG vaccination requirement was suspended and replaced by a recommendation to vaccinate children at high risk of tuberculosis. Since then, it has...
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Evaluation of Tuberculosis Screening Among Vulnerable Foreign Nationals at a Médecins du Monde Health Center in Paris in 2012
Introduction: More than half (56%) of tuberculosis cases reported in France involve people born abroad. Our study evaluated screening for active tuberculosis (ATB) among migrants in...
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Investigation into a suspected cluster of cancers in the municipalities of Pierrefeu-du-Var and Collobrières, Var department, 2013
In March 2013, a resident of the town of Pierrefeu-du-Var (Var department) expressed concern about the occurrence of cancer cases in her family and in her town. She also voiced...
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Body Mass Index and Physical Fitness Among 49,600 Middle and High School Students in Six French Regions, 2007–2014.
Introduction: A sedentary lifestyle is becoming a major societal issue. Against a backdrop of increasing inactivity, physical fitness is now a key determinant of health as well as a...
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Monitoring influenza outbreaks at the regional level. Example of the 2014–2015 winter outbreak in the Pays de la Loire region, France
Introduction: Using the 2014–2015 influenza epidemic in the Pays de la Loire region as a case study, this article describes how surveillance tools are used at the regional level and...
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Final Report on the Toulouse Metropolitan Area Workers' Cohort (AZF Health Cohort). Health Consequences of the Explosion at the AZF Plant on September 21, 2001
The explosion at the AZF factory had significant consequences, and workers in the Toulouse metropolitan area were particularly affected (31 deaths, including 21 workers; 1,300...
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Bronchiolitis Outbreaks in the Nantes Metropolitan Area, 2007–2012
In December 2011, the Nantes University Hospital (CHU) faced a crisis caused by the seasonal bronchiolitis outbreak. To learn from this event, the Pays de la Loire Regional Health...
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Epidemiological data on severe and profound bilateral hearing loss in France for children born between 1997 and 2005.
The two French registries of childhood disabilities, which cover the departments of Haute-Garonne (RHE31), Isère, Savoie, and Haute-Savoie (RHEOP), are specifically tasked with...
