Introduction: To generate indicators of the time to treatment for cancer patients using medical-administrative databases, we sought to determine whether the effective date of long-term...

Introduction. In recent years, several public health indicators have suggested a resurgence of scabies in Aquitaine. In 2011, a retrospective descriptive study was conducted using two...

Introduction - The objective of this study was to describe, among the population residing in French Polynesia, the risk factors (smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, an unbalanced...

Introduction: This article presents an experimental multisource surveillance system for acute poisonings that occurred in the Île-de-France region in 2010 and 2011, encompassing all...

Introduction: In the context of an aging population, it seems important to better understand how social inequalities in health evolve over the course of a person’s life. This article...

Introduction: The objective was to describe the prevalence of obesity and underweight among older adults living at home in France and to examine their association with loss of...

Introduction: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a common and serious condition in developed countries. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR), by improving patient outcomes, is a recommended therapy...

It is tempting to use the Handicap-Santé survey, conducted in France in 2008 and 2009, to estimate the proportion of the general population affected by "mental disability," and to...

Introduction: Guadeloupe has a high rate of preterm birth despite access to healthcare comparable to that in mainland France. The launch of a prospective study (the Timoun cohort) in...