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Overweight rates among middle and high school students in Val-de-Marne, France, in 1998 and 2005, by socioeconomic characteristics
Objective - To describe trends in the prevalence of excess weight (overweight and obesity combined) among middle and high school students in the Val-de-Marne department between 1998 and...
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Use of Saliva Tests in the Investigation of a Hepatitis A Outbreak, Auvergne, December 2004.
In November 2004, six cases of hepatitis A that occurred over a two-week period (five students from a preschool and elementary school and one parent) were reported to the Departmental...
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Investigation of a reported cluster of childhood cancers in Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole, October 2004.
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"MCP Weeks" in the Pays de la Loire region: a monitoring center for occupational diseases.
Occupational diseases (MCP) are, in theory, all diseases that may be work-related but do not fall under the categories of compensable occupational diseases (MPI) listed in the general...
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The prospects for the pilot network for the epidemiological surveillance of musculoskeletal disorders in the Pays de la Loire region: toward the establishment of a national program.
The three-year implementation (2002–2004) in the Pays de la Loire region of a pilot network for the epidemiological surveillance of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) made it...
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Monitoring of major musculoskeletal disorders and exposure to risk in workplaces in 2002 and 2003.
In 2002, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance launched a three-year pilot network for the epidemiological surveillance of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the Pays de...
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Surveillance of carpal tunnel syndrome in the general population in Maine-et-Loire in 2002 and 2003.
An epidemiological surveillance program was implemented as a pilot study over a three-year period (2002–2004) in the Maine-et-Loire department to estimate the incidence of carpal tunnel...
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The Pilot Network for Epidemiological Surveillance of Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Pays de la Loire Region: Objectives and General Methodology.
The Occupational Health Department of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) has proposed a national surveillance program for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) to the...
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Sexual violence: Medical examinations of victims who filed complaints in 2009 in Seine-Saint-Denis (France).
Introduction - It is estimated that at least 50,000 rapes are committed each year in France, only a small fraction of which result in formal complaints. The objective here was to assess...
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Foreign nationals in administrative detention: medical assessments, health and socioeconomic perspectives. Bobigny (France), 2008–2009.
Introduction - Administrative detention centers (CRA) house undocumented immigrants awaiting a decision regarding their continued detention or removal from the country. The purpose of...