Psychotropic medication in the French child and adolescent population: prevalence estimation from health insurance data and national self-report survey data.

Background: The aim of this work is to estimate the French frequencies of dispensed psychotropic prescriptions in children and adolescents. Prevalence estimations of dispensed prescriptions are compared to the frequencies of use of psychotropic reported by 17 year-old adolescents.

Methods: Prescription data is derived from national health insurance databases.

Socioeconomic context, distance to primary care and detection of hepatitis C: a French population-based study.

Previous research suggests that hepatitis C detection is lower in rural than in urban areas and depends on geographic accessibility to care. To what extent differences in socioeconomic context could explain these disparities remains unknown. This study assessed the respective influence of the socioeconomic context and of the distance to primary care on the hepatitis C detection rates in a well-defined population of 1,005,817 inhabitants covered by a universal health insurance system in the Côte d'Or and the Doubs areas of France.

Place of residence and distance to medical care influence the diagnosis of hepatitis C: a population-based study.

Background/aims: In France, geographic access to medical care may affect the diagnosis of hepatitis C. The aims of this study were to compare the detection rates of hepatitis C in urban and rural areas after adjusting for distance to medical care, and evaluating the impact of the place of residence on patients' clinical characteristics.

Methods: Between 1994 and 2001, 1938 newly detected cases were recorded in a French population of 1,005,817 inhabitants.