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Focus: Regional hospital units providing care and treatment for the deaf.
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Editorial. A New Milestone in Monitoring Maternal Mortality.
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Monitoring of occupational exposure in the general population: the Matgéné program.
The Occupational Health Department of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has established and coordinates a program to develop job-exposure matrices tailored to the...
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Cosmop: Analysis of Mortality by Economic Sector.
Introduction - The Cosmop project involves the systematic analysis of a mortality surveillance cohort by occupation and economic sector within the general population. Method - The...
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Deaths from accidents in daily life: nearly 20,000 deaths each year in mainland France.
Statistics on medical causes of death in France are compiled by the Inserm Center for Epidemiology of Medical Causes of Death (CépiDc) based on death certificates. These statistics...
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Medical Exposure of the French Population to Ionizing Radiation for Diagnostic Purposes: A Review of the Situation as of Late 2002 in Preparation for the Implementation of a Monitoring System.
This study took into account exposure resulting from conventional radiology, computed tomography (CT), diagnostic nuclear medicine, and interventional radiology. Its objective was to...
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Response to international health crises: Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbreak, Uíge Province, Angola, 2005.
As of August 23, 2005, Angola’s Ministry of Health reported 374 cases (329 deaths) of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, including 368 cases in the northern province of Uíge. The response to...
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Mortality surveillance systems abroad: two examples.
Mortality surveillance is an essential tool for understanding the health status of a population. Several countries have developed real-time surveillance systems. Two examples are...
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The value of monitoring mortality for early warning purposes.
The overall objective of this study is to present a statistical method for analyzing mortality data that could, if necessary, trigger an alert. Indeed, given the significant...
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Pilot implementation of a new public health surveillance system, France, 2004–2005.
In August 2003, a heat wave with exceptional health consequences struck France. Its intensity, duration, and scope reflect the observed impact. The health crisis led, on the one hand,...
