Introduction - This study evaluates the use of initial health certificates (CS8) for monitoring perinatal policy in the Île-de-France (IDF) region. Methods - Each department in IDF...

Introduction - Thyroid disorders and morphological thyroid abnormalities, such as goiters and nodules, have been identified as potential risk factors for thyroid cancer. Our study...

On November 19, 2002, the Isère Departmental Directorate of Health and Social Affairs (DDASS) was alerted to a high number of cases of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in four neighboring...

The capture-recapture method allows, by cross-referencing multiple sources of information from the same population, for estimating the number of cases not identified by any of the...

From the mouth of the Senegal River to the Sudanese Jazirah, passing through the shores of Lake Chad, the Sahel constitutes both an ecological transition (a wooded steppe, where one...

Introduction - The objectives of this study are to provide a list of codes from the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) that can be used to describe...

Fission products from nuclear reactors are released into the environment in gaseous form. Radioactive iodine isotopes can be inhaled and accumulate in the thyroid gland, potentially...

The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance and the National Reference Center for Yersinia conducted a mail survey of a random sample of French medical analysis laboratories...

Over the past few decades, public health and its education in France have developed in parallel with the emergence of environmental health, with the two fields often relying on...