This work was an attempt at analysing the seasonal pattern of varicella epidemics in France by "tting a susceptibles}exposed}infectives}recovered (SEIR) model with a periodic contact rate function to weekly chickenpox incidence data collected over the period 1991 to 1996. The contact rate was assume
Estimation of the incidence of pleural mesothelioma according to death certificates in France
β Scribed by Y. Iwatsubo; M. Matrat; E. Michel; C. Boutin; F. Galateau-Salle; E. Jougla; J. Bignon; J.C. Pairon; P. Brochard
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
A study was made in the cities of Rotterdam and The Hague, the Netherlands, and in Aichi prefecture, Japan, to assess the effect of weight and height (and their combinations) on the age-specific incidence of breast cancer. It is based on a comparison between 1006 cases of breast cancer and 4201 wome
## Background: Silica exposure is known to cause an increased risk of pneumoconiosis and some types of cancers. exposure to silica is becoming an increasingly common occupational hazard for women. studies contradict each other on whether or not women suffer more occupational pneumoconiosis than men
Despite widespread use of endoscopy and improved surgical treatment, the prognosis for gastric cancer remains poor. Although the incidence has been declining for more than 2 decades, unfavourable changes in relative frequency of histological subtypes and subsites may have occurred. We therefore asse
## Abstract **BACKGROUND**: The limitations and underlying assumptions of the captureβrecapture methods have hindered their application in epidemiological settings, especially in evaluating the completeness of birth defects registries. This study explored the possibility of using birth certificates