The complete digitization of the death certificate (both the administrative and medical sections) was implemented in 2017. It involves numerous stakeholders, including physicians who...

Introduction - Medical causes of death are recorded by physicians on death certificates in free-form text using a wide variety of expressions. Natural language processing (NLP) methods...

Introduction – France has one of the highest suicide rates among European countries. As in other countries, the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact...

Introduction – Alcohol consumption, which is very high in France, poses numerous health risks, both in the short and long term. Over the past few decades, drinking patterns have changed...

Introduction – Challenges involving abstaining from alcohol for a few days or several weeks exist in many countries to encourage people to take a step back and reflect on their drinking...

Introduction - A cluster of cases of illness occurred at Carignan Middle School in the Ardennes department. An environmental assessment and an epidemiological investigation were...

In 2004 and 2005, staff at the town hall in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, experienced an outbreak of unexplained irritative symptoms that caused widespread anxiety, was widely reported in the...

This article describes the method used to estimate the proportion and number of cancers attributable to lifestyle and environmental risk factors among adults in France in 2015. Thirteen...

Introduction - The health, economic, and social burden caused by mental disorders has helped make mental health a top public health priority. In France as well as abroad, the health...

Introduction – The objective of our study is to estimate the prevalence of self-reported diabetes—i.e., diagnosed diabetes—in the general adult population across four overseas...