Background: it is of interest to both the clinicians and patients to estimate the probability of death owing to cancer in the presence of other causes as time elapses since diagnosis....

Épidémiologie du diabète et de ses complications. La prévalence du diabète de type 1 chez l'adulte est estimée entre 0,3 à 0,5 %, soit 10 % de l'ensemble des diabètes. Chez les moins de...

Depuis l'émergence du virus de l'immunodéficience humaine au début des années 1980, l'épidémie s'est largement diffusée dans toutes les régions du monde. En France, la dynamique de...

Background: lumbar disc-related disorders are a main cause of work-related osteo-articular morbidity. Lumbar disc surgery (LDS) has been chosen as sentinel event for the epidemiological...

Background: an international workshop on population health intervention research (PHIR) was organized to foster exchanges between experts from different disciplines and different fields....

Background: during the 2016-2017 austral summer, unprecedented water scarcity was observed in the south of Mayotte, French island in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, authorities introduced...

Since its emergence in 2012, 2,260 cases and 803 deaths due to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been reported to the World Health Organization. Most cases...

Introduction: insufficient physical activity is a known risk factor for various co-morbidities, including cancer. Globally, its prevalence has increased markedly over the past decades....

Ambient air pollution is a leading environmental risk factor and its broad spectrum of adverse health effects includes a decrease in lung function. Socioeconomic status (SES) is known to...

Introduction - La certification électronique mise en place à la suite de la canicule de 2003 permet aux médecins de certifier les décès à travers une application Web sécurisée. Cet...