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This article investigates whether a cancer diagnosis can cause a permanent loss in employability. In this regard, we evaluate the impact of cancer on labor market conditions by constructing transition matrices to compare the transitions between occupational states. We obtain a set of statistics...
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Between March 2005 and May 2006, Réunion Island was hit by an epidemic of chikungunya which affected 260,000 people (38% of the island?s population). Chikungunya is a viral disease transmitted through mosquito bites for which there is no effective treatment. A socio-epidemiological survey was...
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[fre] À partir de quelques questions, l'enquête auprès des personnes fréquentant les services d'hébergement ou les distributions de repas chauds offre un regard sur les niveaux d'alcoolisation des différentes catégories de personnes sans domicile qui ont recours à ces services. Cet...
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National level smoke-free legislation is implemented to protect the public from exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS). The first aim of this study was to investigate how successful the smoke-free hospitality industry legislation in Ireland (March 2004), France (January 2008), the...
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The ANRS-EN12-VESPA 2003 survey interviewed a national, representative sample of the HIV-positive population attending hospital outpatient services. Conducting the survey in a hospital made it easier to identify and contact HIV-positive patients, but involved various biases : the role of the...
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(1) To build a typology of persistent smokers’ reactions to increasing cigarette prices (persistent smokers were defined as smokers who did not quit because of such increases) and (2) to investigate which factors were correlated with their reactions (we considered three categories: no...
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Nowadays, experts are often said to be affected with a generalized "risquophobia", by using the notion of risk in order to blame technical innovations and business spirit. But a historical and sociological appraisal of the notion of risk leads to radically different conclusions. Firstly, the...
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