An alert was received by the Health Surveillance Unit of the DRASS in Réunion regarding the occurrence of “a large number” of scabies cases in various schools in the municipality of...

Despite their prevalence, data on the incidence of breast and colorectal cancers by stage are scarce in the epidemiological literature. The French Network of Cancer Registries (Francim)...

The Kannari Study: Health, Nutrition, and Exposure to Chlordecone in the French West Indies includes a "contamination" component whose objectives are to describe the contamination of the...

Introduction: The goal of the organized breast cancer screening program is to reduce breast cancer mortality by detecting the disease at an early stage. In France, since 2004, women aged...

The "Alcohol and Cancer" chapter of the 2015 Cancer Barometer examines French people’s drinking habits, as well as their sense of being informed about the health effects of alcohol,...

Since April 2005, the department of Réunion has been facing a Chikungunya epidemic. The persistence of active outbreaks despite the end of the 2005 southern winter indicates that the...

In October 2003, a suspected massive influx of patients to the emergency departments in the northern health sector of Réunion Island was reported. Activity data and the characteristics...

Over the past thirty years, the prevalence of asthma and allergies has increased significantly in France, as in many industrialized countries. The few epidemiological studies conducted...

Although infectious and parasitic diseases pose a serious public health concern in Mayotte, a French departmental collectivity in the Comoros archipelago, epidemiological data on these...

Between April and July 2004, the departmental community of Mayotte, a French territory in the Indian Ocean, experienced an unusual increase in the number of infant deaths, as observed by...