Introduction: In late December 2013, a biologist alerted the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Health Agency (ARS) to the diagnosis of four cases of hepatitis A within five days. After...

Objective: To describe the use of psychoactive substances during sexual intercourse and associated risk factors. Materials and methods: In 2015, an anonymous self-administered...

Introduction - On August 29, 2008, the National Reference Center for Salmonella reported four recent isolates of Salmonella Putten, a rare serotype, from laboratories in northwestern...

Introduction. Screening and treatment for chronic hepatitis C in France remain inadequate. Developing effective strategies to increase the number of infected individuals receiving care...

Background. Between 2003 and 2009, the department of Seine-Maritime—and particularly an area encompassing Dieppe and its surroundings—experienced a hyperendemic situation of invasive...

Background. While low participation in breast cancer screening is associated with lower individual socioeconomic status, the reasons for this insufficient participation are not fully...

Introduction - The objective of this study is to describe suicide risk by occupation. It is based on data from the pilot phase in the Rhône-Alpes region of the "Samotrace" occupational...

Objectives - The objectives of this study were 1) to estimate the relative importance of health determinants among all factors influencing migration to French Guiana; 2) to compare the...

Objective - The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of identifying children at risk of lead poisoning using a simple decision-making tool during maternal and child...

Introduction - On June 10, 2009, the National Reference Center (NRC) for Salmonella identified two strains of S. Typhi from Ille-et-Vilaine that exhibited an antibiotic resistance...