Since 2001, the mandatory reporting of certain rare or severe nosocomial infections (NI) has been required in healthcare facilities (HF), and the effective functioning of this reporting...

Introduction: First introduced in 2004, e-cigarettes are used by millions of people worldwide, including many smokers, as an aid to smoking cessation. However, their role in tobacco...

Objectives: This study describes the use of gradual smoking cessation compared to abrupt cessation among smokers seen at smoking cessation clinics in France. Methods: Follow-up data from...

The objective was to describe the attitudes and psychosocial determinants of hepatitis B vaccination among parents of children aged 1 to 16. A repeated-measure online survey of...

Introduction - To best determine the optimal age for vaccinating infants against measles, it is useful to understand the dynamics of maternal anti-measles neutralizing antibodies, which...

Here we present a summary of the results from the recently published EDiTH studies, which analyze the distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in invasive cancers, high-grade...

The Air and Health Monitoring Program (Psas) aims to monitor the health effects of urban air pollution. We will present the organization and key methodological aspects underpinning this...

Among the objectives of epidemiological surveillance, priority is sometimes given to acquiring knowledge rather than to detecting clusters of cases, which is the primary purpose of...

Objectives - This study describes a large-scale anti-smoking campaign conducted in Cyprus from 2004 to 2008 with the aim of reducing children’s exposure to secondhand smoke and...

Introduction - In 2004, New York City conducted a population-based environmental biomonitoring study to identify exposures to selected biomarkers and provide guidance for public health...