Introduction - Influenza surveillance is a major public health issue because it can have a significant impact on the population. In France, this surveillance is based on the Sentinelles...

At the request of the Directorate General for Health, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has on several occasions produced estimates of the potential impact of an...

Background - Pertussis in infants remains a problem in France, where vaccination recommendations—particularly those targeting parents—are rarely followed. Objectives and methods - In...

Introduction - Following the emergence of the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) virus, an alert and surveillance system was established by the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance...

A national surveillance system for chronic hepatitis B was established in 2008, in collaboration with reference centers (university hospital hepatology departments), to describe the...

In France, vaccination against the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is recommended for all infants, following a 3-dose schedule. Vaccination coverage among infants is estimated based on...

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...

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...

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 and...