Peatlands are habitats for a range of fragile flora and fauna species. Their eco-physicochemical characteristics make them as outstanding global carbon and water storage systems. These ecosystems occupy 3% of the worldwide emerged land surface but represent 30% of the global organic soil carbon and 10% of the global fresh water volumes. In such sys...
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Published in BMC Family Practice
BackgroundMedical overuse is an issue that has recently gained attention. The “Choosing Wisely” campaign invited each specialty in each country to create its own top five lists of care procedures with a negative benefit-risk balance to promote dialogue between patients and physicians.This study aims to create such a list for French general practice...
Published in Scientific Reports
Comorbidity scores to predict mortality are very useful to facilitate decision-making for personalized patient management. This study aim was to assess the contribution of medico-administrative data in addition to French Renal Epidemiology and Information Network (REIN) data to the development of a risk score to predict the 1-year all-cause mortali...
Published in Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundHumans are parasitized by three types of lice: body, head and pubic lice. As their common names imply, each type colonizes a specific region of the body. The body louse is the only recognized disease vector. However, an increasing awareness of head lice as a vector has emerged recently whereas the status of pubic lice as a vector is not k...
Published in BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundHepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination by 2030, as targeted by the World Health Organization (WHO), requires that 90% of people with chronic infection be diagnosed and 80% treated. We estimated the cascade of care (CoC) for chronic HCV infection in mainland France in 2011 and 2016, before and after the introduction of direct-acting antiviral...
Le 2 octobre dernier, Emmanuel Macron a annoncé de nouvelles mesures contre le « séparatisme islamiste ». Le président de la République espère faire œuvre de raison en se montrant ferme dans la volonté de circonscrire des dérives idéologiques porteuses de violence, tout en exprimant sa réticence à l’égard de toute forme de stigmatisation des musulm...
Published in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
BackgroundSupervised injection facilities have been set-up in many countries to curb the health risks associated with unsafe injection practices. These facilities have, however, been met with vocal opposition, notably in France. As harm reduction policies can only succeed to the extent that people agree with them, this study mapped French people’s ...
L’humanitaire franco-suisse Sophie Pétronin, enlevée le 24 décembre 2016 dans le nord du Mali, a passé quatre années en détention aux mains du Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans (GSIM), alliance de cellules djihadistes affiliée à Al-Qaïda. Elle a été libérée le 8 octobre dernier avec trois autres captifs, dont l’ancien ministre malien Sou...
E-commerce experienced strong growth in the last decades. Nowadays, there is hardly any product which cannot be purchased online. But as online sales are not successful for all types of articles, not all retail branches are affected in the same way by the development of e-commerce. Furthermore, depending on the type of purchased product different t...
