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USEFUL LINKS IN FRANCE:
RESEARCH CENTERS - INSTITUTIONS
AFSE (Association Française de Sciences Economiques)
ANACT (Agence Nationale pour l’Amélioration des Conditions de Travail)
ARgSES is an association of health Economics
researchers, who built most of their careers in the Credoc Health
Economics division, and then actively contributed to the creation of
Credes (currently Irdes) in 1985. It offers an on-line bibliography of
its members' works from 1998 until today. The previous works can be
consulted on the Irdes website: http://www.irdes.fr
AUDIPOG (Association des Utilisateurs de
Dossiers Informatisés en Périnatalogie,
Obstétrique et Gynécologie)
AUDIPOG is an association of health workers
working together since 1980 for the development of an information
system in perinatality in order to control perinatal health in France
continuously and to assess medical practices.
CEDIAS Musée social (Centre d’Etudes, de Documentation, d’Information et d’Action Sociales)
The mission of the foundation CEDIAS
Musée social is to stimulate reflection on social issues and
problems via studies, exchanges, information, and documentation. Its
research library contains documents which concern existing social and
economic structures, as well as proposed alternatives to these
structures (from the 19th century to the present).
CEDIT (Comité d'Evaluation et de Diffusion des Innovations Technologiques)
The CEDIT is a hospital-based agency for the
assessment of medical technology. Created in 1982, the CEDIT is
responsible for formulating advice for the Director General of the
Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) on the opportunity,
extent and mode of diffusion of technological innovations in AP-HP
hospitals.
The Cegedim group offers services in the domains
of technology and medical information services for health professionals
and pharmaceutical laboratories. These services mainly include
leading-edge technologies in the domains of databases, information
management, Internet, and information networks. The health department's
product line thus mainly concerns the computerisation of physicians'
practices, medical information systems, marketing in the health sector,
and statistics analysis for medical surveys. In the domains of health
economics and epidemiology, the following products are especially
useful: Cegers, Icomed, Market surveillance pharma, and Thalès.
CEREQ (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Qualifications)
Since its inception in the early ‘70s,
the CEREQ’s mission has been to conduct studies and surveys on
training and work-related issues.
The following is currently available online:
- General information on the CEREQ and its research program,
- Consultation of the catalogue of CEREQ publications (past and hot-off-the-press),
- Access to the documentation database (30,000 references) on
entry-level jobs for young people, developments within professions and
qualification modifications, professional training in France and
abroad, labor and workplace reorganization...
- Access to the REFLET database (Référentiels and flux de
l’enseignement technique). The database contains information on
enrollment in trade schools and technology curricula.
- Key figures, notably, the results of the 1999 "Enseignement supérieur" (higher education) survey.
CERIM (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Informatique Médicale)
CES (Collège des Economistes de la Santé)
CNEH (Centre National de l’Expertise Hospitalière)
CNIL (Centre National Informatique et Liberté)
The site contains information on the
CNIL’s mission and operations, as well as French laws and
European directives on the automatic processing of nominative data in
full-text and downloadable form.
CNIS (Conseil National de l’Information Statistique)
The CNIS acts as a go-between for those who
produce and those who use statistics. It oversees statistical series
and surveys initiated by the public sector, drawing up a multi-year and
annual program covering all governmental statistical works undertaken.
The site provides information on the CNIS and its mission,
organization, activities, history, authority, meetings, etc. It also
makes available a directory of public-sector organizations which
produce or commission statistics, a list of surveys in progress (by
topic and organization which initiated the work), the program for
surveys planned, and a lexicon of acronyms.
CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Overview of the CNRS (scientific information,
scientific departments), press releases (communiqués, press
bulletins), and directories for CNRS administration, laboratories, the
National Committee for Scientific Research (Comité national de
la recherche scientifique), French websites concerning higher education
and research institutions.
Cor (Conseil d'orientation des retraites)
The Conseil d'orientation des retraites
("Pensions Advisory Council") was created in the year 2000. It is a
permanent body which brings together members of Parliament,
representatives of the social partners, experts, and representatives of
the State. Its main purposes are to monitor the French retirement
system and to put forward recommendations for public policy concerning
retirement, on the basis of expertise and consultation with all the
partners involved.
Credoc (Centre de Recherche pour l'Etude et
l'Observation des Conditions de vie) is a research and survey
organization that caters to players within every facet of social and
economic concerns.
In addition to providing general information on
the Credoc, this site enables the user to consult various publications
like "Consommation et modes de vie" (consumption and lifestyles, a
summary of issues dating back to 1985), "Collections des rapports" (the
collection of reports) and "Cahier de recherche" (working papers). The
documentation can be searched by subject.
CRIPS (Centre Régional d’Information et de Prévention du Sida)
The various CRIPS branches nationwide
disseminate information on HIV infection. The regional branches work in
concert, and have created a website including pages from each CRIPS
office. The content and extent of each CRIPS’ pages vary: the
Provence-Rhône-Alpes-Côte d’Azur branch, for example,
has comprehensive information on its activities, as well as summaries
and complete dossiers.
EDISANTE is a French not-for-profit association
comprised of various actors within the health care system. The
association's mission is to promote development and facilitate the
exchange of computerized information. The site offers general
information about the association (it's purpose, member list,
organization, statutes), work groups open to all organizations involved
in the improvement of health system information exchange, documents
published by Edisanté, and Internet links (Edi for the health
system, Edi norms, free dictionaries and software).
FNG (Fondation Nationale de Gérontologie)
This site provides information on FNG's
activities and a summary of its publications, but the texts of
referenced documents are not available online. It offers an important documentation database.
GERS (Groupement pour l’Elaboration et la Réalisation de Statistiques)
This group, created by the pharmaceutics
industry, includes members from almost all of the French pharmaceutical
laboratories. It conceives, generates, and disseminates sales
statistics for pharmaceutical products for the use of its members
nationwide (solely for export purposes). It also manages their
databases. The GERS's statistics are not gathered by surveys; they are
exact complete series based on sales figures. They are gathered from
distribution organizations and are taken from delivery information for
pharmacies, from wholesalers' records of the sales made directly to
pharmacies and from the hospital laboratories they order from, as well
as from the laboratories' own records of sales to pharmacies,
hospitals, and foreign markets. The Gers then publishes studies and
analyses for its members.
The objective of Iresp is to develop and promote French
research into public health, through a partnership that respects the
autonomy of involved institutions . The site provide information on
Iresp's activities and offers a database which inventories
public health research groups in France.
Ined (Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques)
Ined studies the populations of the world and of
regions or countries - in particular Europe and France - using the
tools of demography in association with those of other disciplines such
as history, geography, sociology, economics, biology and epidemiology.
It conducts researches on universal phenomena such as births, unions,
migrations and mortality, and its researchers work in a wide variety of
fields.
Its site presents:
-Overview of Ined
- Files on each researcher, with projects listed,
- Ined publications with summaries, full texts, or overviews depending
on the publication, - Information on the research library,
- Bibliographic database
- Population in figures, with a large number of data tables for
metropolitan France, and in some case, the whole of France Data for
developped countries are given in table form.
- a pedagogical section provides informations about world population in an entertaining way.
INIST (Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique - CNRS)
The INIST furnishes copies of articles and
monographies. You can consult the contents of its document collection
on the Internet free of charge. See heading "Banques de
données"(databases).
Inpes (Institut national de prévention et d'éducation en santé)
The Inpes conducts prevention campaigns and
programs which encourage people to adopt healthy behavior and
lifestyles. The site provides a catalogue of information available in
various mediums and organized by subject, population, and type of
medium. The user may consult public health files by subject (tobacco,
alcohol, AIDS, controlled substances, nutrition, hygiene, accidents,
cancer, children’s rights, patient education, hepatitis C, back
pain, maternity protection, vaccines). These files furnish information
on the latest campaigns (context, objectives, means) as well as the
corresponding Inpes documentation. Also available are summaries of
recent issues of "Santé de l’homme" and certain issues of
"Baromètre santé" (periodic surveys on health). A lexicon
provides explanations and definitions of public health terms and
concepts.
INRS (Institut National de la Recherche et de
la Sécurité pour la Prévention des Accidents du
travail et des Maladies Professionnelles) .
INRS is a French Institute competent in the area of occupational risk
prevention: protecting workers’ health and safety and preventing occupational
accidents or diseases. Its missions include: anticipating needs (with studies
and research programmes), raising awareness (via information products,
prevention campaigns) and assistance (through technical guidance, information
resources, training).
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques)
- Press releases concerning recent publications,
- Key population and density figures from the census,
- catalogues of computerized data,
- Insee publications catalogue. Searches can be conducted by subject, collection, theme, date, author, or medium.
- Online Insee product order forms as well as ordering restrictions,
- You can download the latest issues of Insee's "Première" by
theme: population, revenues, businesses... The section entitled
"France in facts and figures" provides key data for France. It
gives recent general information on the French population,
unemployment, employment, and economic indicators. It also provides tables organized by some thirty subjects:
demographic data, Gross Domestic Product, foreign investment in
France...This overview of France is complemented by relevant
international comparisons.
Inserm (National Institute for Health and Medical Research) (réseau DIC-DOC)
Inserm (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (réseau DIC-DOC)
- BIR (Research database)
- Access to the BIR/BPI site (laboratories, equipment, research subjects, publications),
- Access to other Inserm sites.
- The Sc8 Department which collects data on medical causes of death
- General information on Sc8 and statistics on causes of death,
- Access to the database containing information on causes of death in France,
- Consultation of a list of available publications,
- Consultation of the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.
- At the Inserm site:
general information, job vacancies, tender offers, symposia,
publications. The site also contains information from the
Inserm’s annual report: organizational charts, Inserm figures,
fields of research, Inserm’s scientific projects, partnerships,
the modernization of its administration, staff, budget and finance
figures...
Ireb (Institut de Recherches Scientifiques sur les Boissons)
Ireb is an N.G.O. created in 1971 by responsible producers of alcoholic
beverages.
These producers are extremely concerned by the use (or the
misuse) which is made with their products and hare together a common concern.
Their aim is to improve the knowledge of the different mechanisms of
installation of an excessive consumption and to give some information to the
actors of prevention.
The member companies participate financially (all the money is private money
from the alcoholic beverages companies)
See heading : database.
LEGOS (Economics and management of health Organisations Laboratory)
LEGOS (Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion des Organisations de Santé)
The laboratory of Economics and management of
health organizations develops most of its activities in research,
teaching and expertise in the field of economic analysis of health and
social sectors. Theoretical and applied research activity is organised
around four main axes: regulation and financing of health systems ;
evaluation, quality, performance;aging and long-term care ; access to care and health inequalities
LEST (Laboratoire d'économie et de sociologie du travail)
The LEST was created to reinforce and further
French research in the field of labor and employment. It therefore
focuses on the social structure of labor relations. Its three main
lines of inquiry are: changes in production and management techniques,
the erosion of salary-based economy and new labor relations, and public
policy. The site contains LEST publications dating back to 1989.
The MAPI was created in 1995 to improve the
technical and practical methods for evaluating health aspects of
quality-of-life studies (QOL). It gathers and disseminates information
on quality-of-life issues and relevant health aspects. The site
contains a list of services available at MAPI’s document center:
research on quality-of-life questionnaires and evaluations
(restrictions for use, availability, translations, pathology-specific
questionnaires), distribution of publications, sale of databases. Its
"Quality of Life Newsletter" is available online and can be searched by
keywords.
Migrations Santé is a not-for-profit
organization whose scope is national. Its purpose is to work for the
improvement of health for migrants and their families by facilitating
their access to care, and promoting training, research, and information
dissemination among health care and social services professionals. The
group identifies the community health priorities, develops adapted
educational programs, and provides the general public with information
on health and social problems faced by migrant populations. Also
available are the association's publications (magazine, newsletter,
subject-specific dossiers), and information on the pedagogical
tool-kits it developed.
OFCE (Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques)
The site provides an overview of the OFCE, press
reviews and seminars on economics, and access to complete versions of
recent OFCE publications: the OFCE newsletter, the OFCE journal, and a
directory of important actors in the field of economics.
The site provides a recap of the SAMU’s
history and an overview of its operations (emergency teams,
professions, management of the emergency-call number), its mission, its
care facilities and shelters. The "Observatoire du SAMU social"
(Observatory of the social-SAMU) is presented under the heading
"missions". Created in 1999, its objectives are to monitor the full
range of deprived populations, to identify and analyze their health and
social problems, to draw up typologies and gather data on personal
histories and health indicators in an effort to further understanding
of these elusive, and therefore harder to monitor, populations.
Cette société scientifique a
été créée en 2002. Elle souhaite regrouper
tous les acteurs qui interviennent en économie de la
santé. Elle a mis en place cinq commissions thématiques
sur des thèmes polémiques et décisifs actuels : la
propriété intellectuelle appliquée au vivant, la
fixation du prix du médicament en Europe,
l’évaluation des pratiques médicales,
l’éducation pour la santé et les
externalités positives et négatives en santé. Elle
anime également des journées d’étude et des
conférences.
Sur le site, de nombreuses informations sur
l’actualité gérontologique, des fiches techniques
(APA, accueil familial, aide à domicile, assurance
dépendance…), un guide pratique à
l’intention des retraités, des personnes
âgées et de leur famille, les lieux ressources, les
sommaires des revues IGD (Informations Gérontologiques
Départementales).
Equipe de recherche sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé et du recours aux soins (DS3)
The DS3 team headed by P. Chauvin was
established in 2002 thanks to the support from the Inserm Avenir
programme. The team conducts research on the interrelations between
individuals' situation (in the broadest meaning of the term, i.e.,
living conditions, social insertion and life-history break,
psychosocial characteristics, environment and socioeconomic
background), their health perceptions, strategies and utilisation modes
of the helthcare system. D3 research combines sociological and
epidemiological approaches and qualitative and statistical
methods.
The site provide a list of publications and
current projects list, research reports ( full text access), seminars
communications..
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