The "Workplace Epidemiology" component of the Samotrace project aims to describe mental health in the workplace using various indicators. It relies on the voluntary participation of...

Background: During the development of regional air quality plans in France, assessments of the short-term health impacts of urban air pollution were conducted using exposure-risk...

Background - On March 29, 2006, the Calvados Departmental Directorate of Health and Social Affairs was alerted to a cluster of gastroenteritis cases among sailors who had participated in...

Introduction - The purpose of this study is to describe recent trends in asthma-related mortality, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits for acute asthma in the Midi-Pyrénées...

In September 2002, teachers at the Joliot Curie school complex (Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis) expressed concern about the occurrence, within the school, of cancers and thyroid...

Unexplained episodes of illness occurred among staff in a central operating unit at Marseille’s Hôpital Nord during a period of construction work in August 2005. The nonspecific...

The main findings of the Coquelicot survey have just been published. Swaps took this opportunity to examine the profiles and behaviors of crack users in northeastern Paris, as described...

In response to the consequences of the exceptional heat wave of 2003, the National Heat Wave Plan (PNC) was developed in 2004. Updated in June 2005, this plan establishes an alert and...

French Guiana, like the rest of the Amazon region, has long been considered a low-risk area for Chagas disease, with forest-dwelling vectors and a wild animal reservoir. Changes in the...

Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a feared illness due to its sudden onset—most often in young children or adolescents—its high case-fatality rate, the risk of serious long-term...