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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on October 26, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(1):3-4; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl077
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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French experiences with Health Impact Assessment of disasters

Pierre Verger1, Marielle Aulagnier1, Valérie Schwoebel2 and Thierry Lang3

1 Observatoire Régional de la Santé, Provence Alpes, Côte d'Azur Marseille, France
2 Cellule Inter-régionale d'Epidémiologie Midi-Pyrénées, Institut National de Veille Sanitaire Toulouse, France
3 Institut Fédératif de Recherche 126 ‘Santé, Société’, Inserm U558 et Institut National de Veille Sanitaire Toulouse, France

Correspondence: Thierry Lang, Institut Fédératif de Recherche 126 ‘Santé, Société’, Inserm U558 et Institut National de Veille Sanitaire, Toulouse, France, e-mail: lang@cict.fr

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Several catastrophes in France have been followed by health evaluation programmes/studies. After the AZF factory explosion (Toulouse, 2001, 30 deaths, 3000 injured persons), a large Health Impact Assessment (HIA) programme was set up which demonstrated a large impact on mental health (post-traumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms) and hearing impairment.1 This programme has also been designed to assess indirect health effects of the disaster due to housing destruction, schooling consequences, job loss, and so on. Epidemiological studies carried out several years after the 1992 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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