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Monitoring of major musculoskeletal disorders and exposure to risk in workplaces in 2002 and 2003.
In 2002, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance launched a three-year pilot network for the epidemiological surveillance of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the Pays de...
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Surveillance of carpal tunnel syndrome in the general population in Maine-et-Loire in 2002 and 2003.
An epidemiological surveillance program was implemented as a pilot study over a three-year period (2002–2004) in the Maine-et-Loire department to estimate the incidence of carpal tunnel...
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The Pilot Network for Epidemiological Surveillance of Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Pays de la Loire Region: Objectives and General Methodology.
The Occupational Health Department of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) has proposed a national surveillance program for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) to the...
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Sexual violence: Medical examinations of victims who filed complaints in 2009 in Seine-Saint-Denis (France).
Introduction - It is estimated that at least 50,000 rapes are committed each year in France, only a small fraction of which result in formal complaints. The objective here was to assess...
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Foreign nationals in administrative detention: medical assessments, health and socioeconomic perspectives. Bobigny (France), 2008–2009.
Introduction - Administrative detention centers (CRA) house undocumented immigrants awaiting a decision regarding their continued detention or removal from the country. The purpose of...
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The Role of Forensic Medicine in Understanding Violent Deaths in the Bas-Rhin (France) in 2008.
In France, cases of violent death have been the subject of few previous studies by forensic institutes and are underestimated in the statistics of the CépiDc. Our retrospective study...
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Cluster of tularemia cases. Vendée, August 2004
In August 2004, 15 cases of tularemia occurred following a visit to a mill in the Vendée region. A site visit to the mill and three studies—descriptive, retrospective cohort, and...
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Epidemiological monitoring of the health consequences of an industrial disaster: the explosion at the AZF factory in Toulouse, September 2001
On September 21, 2001, an explosion occurred in an ammonium nitrate storage warehouse at the AZF plant in Toulouse, located within an industrial site classified as a Seveso site in 1982....
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Health Impacts of Air Pollution in the Clermont-Ferrand Metropolitan Area
The health impact assessment (HIA) of air pollution in the Clermont-Ferrand metropolitan area is part of the Auvergne Region’s Regional Air Quality Plan (PRQA), which sets out guidelines...
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Investigation of two outbreaks of foodborne illness linked to the consumption of shellfish in Loire-Atlantique, France, 2010
Introduction - Two outbreaks of foodborne illness were reported among employees of the same company following seminars held at two seaside resorts in Loire-Atlantique between January 26...
