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Mortality surveillance systems abroad: two examples.
Mortality surveillance is an essential tool for understanding the health status of a population. Several countries have developed real-time surveillance systems. Two examples are briefly...
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The value of monitoring mortality for early warning purposes.
The overall objective of this study is to present a statistical method for analyzing mortality data that could, if necessary, trigger an alert. Indeed, given the significant variability...
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Pilot implementation of a new public health surveillance system, France, 2004–2005.
In August 2003, a heat wave with exceptional health consequences struck France. Its intensity, duration, and scope reflect the observed impact. The health crisis led, on the one hand, to...
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Editorial. A New Milestone in Monitoring Maternal Mortality.
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Editorial. How can we make the most of this experience?
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Outbreaks of unexplained physical symptoms: how to diagnose “psychogenic syndrome.”
Introduction - Outbreaks of unexplained physical complaints are situations in which people exhibit the same somatic symptoms, with no organic cause, and in which these symptoms spread to...
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Geographical variations in deaths from cancers for which screening is available in metropolitan areas, France, 1998–2002.
Introduction - As part of the government’s cancer plan, the InVS has strengthened regional cancer surveillance to inform decision-making and monitor local measures by analyzing mortality...
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Surveillance of alveolar echinococcosis in France: a review of five years of data collection, 2001–2005.
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare but serious larval cestodiasis caused by the development of the Echinococcus multilocularis (E. multilocularis) larva in the liver. It requires...
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Priorities and actions taken in the area of non-food-borne zoonoses, 2000–2005.
Non-foodborne zoonoses vary widely in terms of causative agents, modes of transmission, geographic distribution, and significance for human and animal public health. Since its creation,...
