Introduction: The objective of this study was to measure and characterize deaths from everyday accidents in France from 2000 to 2012. Method: The results were derived from a "reference...

Objective: The analysis of mortality data is essential for public health surveillance. Given that deaths are often attributable to multiple diseases, this article presents a new method...

The objective of this study was to describe and quantify the influence of the socioeconomic environment on cancer incidence for each of the 15 most common solid tumors and the three...

We conducted a literature search in the Medline database using the PubMed website. The incidence of presumably infectious encephalitis is estimated at 1.5–7 cases per 100,000...

Background: Given the health, social, and economic burden of neurodegenerative diseases (ND), there is a need for epidemiological studies. Administrative databases, such as the French...

Introduction: This study describes the structure of mortality by cause in French Polynesia (FP) from 2005 to 2010 and its trends from 1984 to 2010. This structure is then compared with...

The widespread adoption of information technology and the use of the Internet in a wide variety of fields, both professionally and personally, has sparked an unprecedented race to...

This article offers a definition of emerging infectious diseases and the various forms that their emergence can take. The factors driving the introduction of new pathogens and their...

Background: The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) manages and coordinates numerous surveillance systems. In 2009, the InVS initiated a standardized approach for...

Hearing disorders observed in the workplace are primarily attributed to noise exposure alone and do not take into account the possible involvement of other factors, such as certain...