Introduction: This article presents an experimental multisource surveillance system for acute poisonings that occurred in the Île-de-France region in 2010 and 2011, encompassing all...

Introduction: In the context of an aging population, it seems important to better understand how social inequalities in health evolve over the course of a person’s life. This article...

Introduction: The objective was to describe the prevalence of obesity and underweight among older adults living at home in France and to examine their association with loss of...

Introduction: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a common and serious condition in developed countries. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR), by improving patient outcomes, is a recommended therapy...

It is tempting to use the Handicap-Santé survey, conducted in France in 2008 and 2009, to estimate the proportion of the general population affected by "mental disability," and to...

Introduction: Guadeloupe has a high rate of preterm birth despite access to healthcare comparable to that in mainland France. The launch of a prospective study (the Timoun cohort) in...

Background: Regional Health Agencies (ARS) receive reports of adverse events related to patient care within the healthcare and medico-social services system, which are submitted to them...

This new study complements the mortality study of a cohort of veterans who were present at French nuclear test sites in the Pacific between 1966 and 1996 and who underwent dosimetric...

Introduction: The objective of the Esprit study, launched in 2003 at the initiative of the Ministry of Health, was to estimate the frequency of healthcare-associated adverse events...

Introduction: The prognosis for late preterm and early term births (35–36 weeks’ gestation and 37–38 weeks’ gestation, respectively) remains unclear during the first year of life....