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Risks of Importing Exotic Infectious Diseases into Metropolitan France: Detection, Alert, and Response
In the field of infectious diseases, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance is responsible for driving and coordinating the anticipation and analysis of infectious disease...
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Mortality from accidents in daily life in mainland France, 2000–2006
Introduction - The objective of this study is to measure and characterize deaths from everyday accidents in France from 2000 to 2006. Methods - The results were derived from the...
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Reporting bias regarding weight and height among adults in France. Effects on estimates of the prevalence of overweight and obesity
Introduction - Our objective was to estimate the discrepancies between self-reported and measured anthropometric data in a national sample of adults and to assess the implications for...
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Prevalence of obesity and associated factors among 5- to 6-year-old children in Haute-Savoie, France
Childhood obesity rose sharply in the 1990s. The routine school-based medical and developmental screening of 5- to 6-year-olds provides an opportunity to study its prevalence. This...
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Addressing local environmental health issues in partnership with the humanities and social sciences
Experience shows that, in many reports of health issues attributed to environmental factors received by the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS), it is necessary to...
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Conditions and life events associated with overweight in adults: a gender-specific analysis of data from the SIRS cohort, Greater Paris, 2005
Introduction - The objective of this study, based on the first wave of the Health, Inequalities, and Social Disruptions (SIRS) cohort, is to estimate the association between certain...
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Geographic Variations in the Incidence Trends of Thyroid Cancer by Region Between 1983 and 2000 in France
Background - The objective of this study was to examine, using French registries, geographical variations in trends in the incidence of thyroid cancer among women according to tumor...
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Batimex: A Job-Exposure Matrix for Cement Among Construction Workers—Design and Validation
Objective. To develop a job-task-exposure matrix (METE) specific to the construction sector and to evaluate its performance. Method. The METE, named Batimex, was developed a priori by...
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Cancer: The Situation in France and the European Context
With 28% of all deaths, cancer is the second leading cause of death in France. Partly due to the aging population, new cases have increased by 36% over the past 20 years, but deaths...
