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Health Data for Environmental Health Surveillance: Needs and Prospects.
Current French health data surveillance systems are not suited to the specific needs of environmental health. To provide a scientific response to concerns raised by the public or...
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Editorial. Environmental health surveillance: a little-known yet essential discipline.
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Concepts in environmental health monitoring.
Environmental health surveillance (EHS) can be understood as "public health surveillance of health related to the environment." This allows us to define it by extension from the...
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Will the aging population overwhelm the healthcare system?
Opinions are divided on the impact of population aging on healthcare costs. Some argue that demographic trends over the coming decades will be unsustainable for public finances and will...
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The Nephrology Epidemiology and Information Network (Rein): a national registry of renal replacement therapies for chronic kidney disease.
The "Epidemiology and Information Network in Nephrology" (Rein) was established to address public health issues raised by treatments for end-stage chronic kidney disease. Its purpose is...
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Incidence of cancer near municipal waste incineration plants in France, 1990–1999.
The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between the incidence of cancer in adults and exposure to air emissions from municipal waste incineration plants. It focused on...
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Assessing Radon Risks in Regions: Raising Awareness Among Stakeholders About a Little-Known Public Health Issue.
We spend 90% of our lives indoors, and radon is recognized as a carcinogen. In France, however, even among potential stakeholders in radon management, there remains debate regarding its...
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Strengthening France’s national cancer surveillance system: the implementation of the Multi-Source Cancer System (SMSC).
The Multi-Source Cancer System (SMSC) is a government initiative whose development has been entrusted to the InVS. It aims to strengthen the cancer surveillance system based on...
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Reports of cancer clusters: How are they investigated?
The purpose of this article is to provide a framework for explaining how reports of cancer clusters emerge, to outline the investigative approach, and to highlight its limitations,...
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Epidemiology of Maternal Deaths in France, 2001–2006.
Introduction - The National Confidential Survey on Maternal Mortality (ENCMM) aims to compile data on all maternal deaths in order to draw general conclusions about the quality of care....