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The August 2003 heat wave: What happened?
The summer of 2003 was the hottest France had experienced in 53 years. A heat wave of exceptional intensity occurred during the first half of August, with maximum and minimum...
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Urban Airborne Particles and Cardiovascular Toxicity: Risks That Are Becoming Increasingly Well Understood
Abstract: A review of the literature on the epidemiological and pathophysiological understanding of the short-term cardiovascular effects of atmospheric particulate matter. Current...
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Air pollution: What are the health impacts?
Objective: To present the results of the second phase of the PSAS-9 program regarding the health impacts of urban air pollution. The relative risks associated with short-term exposure...
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Health Effects of Air Pollution: The Air and Health Monitoring Program in 9 Cities
Objective: To quantify the short-term effects of air pollution on mortality and hospital admissions due to cardiovascular or respiratory causes in the nine cities (Bordeaux, Le Havre,...
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The Health Impact of Air Pollution: Questions and Answers. A Response to Jacques Estève’s Editorial
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Assessment of the Short-Term Health Impact of Urban Air Pollution: New Findings from Nine French Cities and Public Health Implications
Since 1997, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) has coordinated the Air and Health Surveillance Program—9 Cities (PSAS-9), whose objective is to assess and...
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The Role of Air Pollution in Excess Mortality During the Summer of 2003. Proceedings of the ADELF Conference, September 15–17, 2004, Bordeaux
The extreme temperatures observed during the summer of 2003 were accompanied by a significant excess mortality rate, estimated at nearly 15,000 deaths in France between August 1 and...
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Urban particulate air pollution: from epidemiology to public health impacts
The occurrence of acute episodes of air pollution in the 1950s demonstrated to the general public the harmful effects that deteriorating air quality could have on health. Since then,...
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Patient advocacy groups in the fields of AIDS and substance abuse
The scale of the collective mobilization sparked by the AIDS epidemic has been highlighted time and again. Due to a logic of selective dissemination, infection with the human...
