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Editorial. A New Milestone in Monitoring Maternal Mortality.
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Deaths from accidents in daily life: nearly 20,000 deaths each year in mainland France.
Statistics on medical causes of death in France are compiled by the Inserm Center for Epidemiology of Medical Causes of Death (CépiDc) based on death certificates. These statistics cover...
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Medical Exposure of the French Population to Ionizing Radiation for Diagnostic Purposes: A Review of the Situation as of Late 2002 in Preparation for the Implementation of a Monitoring System.
This study took into account exposure resulting from conventional radiology, computed tomography (CT), diagnostic nuclear medicine, and interventional radiology. Its objective was to...
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Monitoring of occupational exposure in the general population: the Matgéné program.
The Occupational Health Department of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has established and coordinates a program to develop job-exposure matrices tailored to the...
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Cosmop: Analysis of Mortality by Economic Sector.
Introduction - The Cosmop project involves the systematic analysis of a mortality surveillance cohort by occupation and economic sector within the general population. Method - The first...
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Response to international health crises: Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbreak, Uíge Province, Angola, 2005.
As of August 23, 2005, Angola’s Ministry of Health reported 374 cases (329 deaths) of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, including 368 cases in the northern province of Uíge. The response to...
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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,...
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Gender and Social Characteristics of Adolescent Drug Users, France, 2000–2005
Introduction - Recent studies of the adult population suggest that social status influences the use of both legal and illegal psychoactive substances differently among men and women,...
