Background: Given the health, social, and economic burden of neurodegenerative diseases (ND), there is a need for epidemiological studies. Administrative databases, such as the French...

Introduction: This study describes the structure of mortality by cause in French Polynesia (FP) from 2005 to 2010 and its trends from 1984 to 2010. This structure is then compared with...

The widespread adoption of information technology and the use of the Internet in a wide variety of fields, both professionally and personally, has sparked an unprecedented race to...

This article offers a definition of emerging infectious diseases and the various forms that their emergence can take. The factors driving the introduction of new pathogens and their...

Background: The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) manages and coordinates numerous surveillance systems. In 2009, the InVS initiated a standardized approach for...

Hearing disorders observed in the workplace are primarily attributed to noise exposure alone and do not take into account the possible involvement of other factors, such as certain...

Introduction: At certain levels, noise exposure is harmful to the ear. Over a period of approximately thirty years (1968 to 2000), the IUMT in Lyon conducted audiometric follow-ups of...

Introduction: Job coding is essential for studying occupational risks at the population level or for standardizing job data for comparison purposes. Objective: To present the...

Introduction: Given the wide range of occupational exposures, the objective is to determine whether there are exposure profiles that combine biomechanical, chemical, and psychosocial...

Objective: Cardiovascular diseases are the second leading cause of death in France. Certain occupational risk factors have been implicated. The objective of this study is to analyze...