Why are there fewer obese children in France than in other Western European countries?

Increasing Incidence of Listeriosis in France and Other European Countries

From 1999 through 2005, the incidence of listeriosis in France declined from 4.5 to 3.5 cases/million persons. In 2006, it increased to 4.7 cases/million persons. Extensive epidemiologic investigations of clusters in France have ruled out the occurrence of large foodborne disease outbreaks. In addition, no increase has occurred in pregnancy-associated cases or among persons <60 years of age who...

There Are Asymptotically Far Fewer Polytopes than We Thought

The problem of enumerating convex polytopes with n vertices in R has been the object of considerable study going back to ancient times (see [4, §13.6] for some remarks about the history of this problem since the nineteenth century). While significant progress has been made when the number of vertices was not too much larger than the dimension [4], little had been known above dimension 3 in the ...

Are UK cancer cure rates worse than in most other European countries?

Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?

Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience? During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others. The paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of recent economic research, emphasizing obstacles to reform due to political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within ...

Commentary: Is there a common background behind growing inequalities in mortality in Western European countries?

social equity in health has been a main objective in the WHO's Health for All programmes as well as in numerous documents outlining national health policies in countries all over the world since the early 1980s. Nevertheless, existing evidence suggests that—contrary to the political aim—health disparities have actually increased, particularly if we consider the gravest indicator of ill health, ...