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Monthly Tobacco Dashboard: A real-time tool for tracking trends in smoking in France.
Since April 2004, the French Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) has been compiling several key indicators each month in a "tobacco dashboard." This tool makes it...
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Revision of malaria prevention recommendations following the recent increase in Plasmodium falciparum resistance to chloroquine and proguanil in Africa: reclassification of seven countries—Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia,
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The roles and effective strategies of primary care physicians in smoking cessation.
This article provides an overview of recommended actions to help general practitioners effectively assist smokers in quitting. Some of these actions should be carried out during...
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Tobacco use indicators.
There are two sources of data on tobacco consumption in France: sales data and survey data. This information has been compiled recently. Sales data provide only an estimate of total...
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Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae among healthy children aged 2 to 24 months in New Caledonia between August 2002 and April 2003
Streptococcus pneumoniae (Sp) colonizes the upper respiratory tract within the first few months of life and is part of the normal flora of the nasopharynx. It is also responsible for...
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Identification of barriers to screening and care for patients infected with the hepatitis C virus: the Gymkhana 1 study, France, December 9–12, 2002
Despite campaigns encouraging screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV), HCV infection remains underdiagnosed, and its clinical and therapeutic management is suboptimal. The authors seek to...
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A predictive score for type 2 diabetes in France: the D.E.S.I.R. prospective study
Objectives - To propose clinical and bio-clinical scores predictive of diabetes in the French population. Method - The study included 1,863 men and 1,954 women (D.E.S.I.R. cohort), aged...
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Cases of active tuberculosis reported in France in 2006.
The results presented here pertain to cases of active tuberculosis reported in France during 2006 under mandatory reporting requirements. In 2006, the number of reported cases of active...
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HIV Testing Practices Among People from Sub-Saharan Africa in the Île-de-France Region, 2005.
As part of the 2005 survey on knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding HIV/AIDS conducted by the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education (Inpes), 1,874...
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Free and Anonymous HIV Testing in France, 2006.
Anonymous and free HIV testing clinics (CDAG), thanks to their accessibility and widespread distribution throughout France, provide an easy way to get tested for HIV/AIDS....
