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Health Risk Assessment: Application to Household Waste Storage
Landfilling is currently one of the primary methods of waste management in France. The InVS and AFSSET, in collaboration with several organizations, have conducted a quantitative...
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Accident-related morbidity and mortality associated with cycling in France
According to the 2000 Health Barometer survey conducted by the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education, 55.2% of people aged 12 to 75 reported having ridden a bicycle in...
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Can pollen-related morbidity be estimated and monitored using health insurance data?
The study proposes a method for assessing pollen-related morbidity based on medication usage data derived from prescription coding. The data pertain to the general health insurance...
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Environmental Health Information Systems
Objective: To provide not an exhaustive catalog, but a systematic approach to searching for information on environmental health, one that incorporates the concepts of information value...
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National Registry Committee. Status as of January 1, 2001
"A registry is a continuous and comprehensive collection of personal data pertaining to one or more health events within a defined geographic population, maintained for research and...
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Thyroid Cancer in France and the Chernobyl Disaster: Assessment of Potential Risks and Recommendations for Improving Epidemiological Knowledge
An increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer has been observed in the general population in France for more than 20 years. The Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986, was responsible...
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A National Epidemiological Surveillance System for Thyroid Cancers: Why and How?
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Transparency at the risk of misunderstanding. Misunderstanding: a limit to transparency policy
The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) has been entrusted by law with an increasingly prominent and urgent mission: to monitor the health of the population and...
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Thyroid status and prevalence of thyroid disorders among adults included in the SU.VI.MAX study in 1994–1995
