Food aid organizations strive to distribute food in accordance with recommendations, notably by providing training to their volunteer and paid staff on how to put together nutritionally...

The nutritional status of people living in precarious circumstances is most often estimated based on studies that analyze, within the general population, the relationship between lower...

Foot complications are among the most serious complications of diabetes, both in human and financial terms. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy causes a loss of sensation that increases the...

Invasive meningococcal infections (IMI) are serious infections that most commonly affect young people. In France, the majority of cases occur sporadically. Surveillance of IIM is one of...

In 1999, the prevalence of treated diabetes was 3.2% in the general population and 11.2% among people aged 65 and older living in mainland France. Population aging and the rise in...

Tetanus is a notifiable disease. Mandatory reporting allows for monitoring trends in the incidence of the disease, identifying its key epidemiological characteristics, and assessing the...

Flu vaccination is recommended for vulnerable individuals and, since 1999 in France, for healthcare workers to protect patients, as staff can play a significant role in the spread of the...

At the request of the Directorate General for Health, the Institute for Health Surveillance has established a monitoring system for eye complications that may have occurred following the...

Since September 19, 1996, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other human subacute spongiform encephalopathies (SSEs), regardless of their cause, have been included on the list of...