Association between residential proximity to agricultural crops and adaptive behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorder from the French ELENA cohort.

Influences of pesticide exposures on the clinical expression of children with ASD not known. The aim of this study was to analyze the associations between early residential proximity to agricultural crops, proxy of exposure to pesticides, and adaptive behaviors in children with ASD. Children with ASD were recruited within the Etude Longitudinale de l'Enfant avec Autisme (ELENA) French cohort.

Individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic inequalities in cognitive impairment: cross-sectional findings from the French CONSTANCES cohort.

Objectives: Despite the recent awareness of the environment impact on brain ageing, the influence of the neighbourhood socioeconomic status on cognitive impairment remains unclear. Here, we investigated the effects of individual and neighbourhood deprivation on cognitive impairment in middle-aged and young-old people.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

General practitioners who never perform Pap smear: the medical offer and the socio-economic context around their office could limit their involvement in cervical cancer screening.

Background: In France, with the growing scarcity of gynecologists and a globally low and socially differentiated coverage of cervical cancer screening (CCS), general practitioners (GPs) are valuable resources to improve screening services for women. Still all GPs do not perform Pap smears. In order to promote this screening among GPs, the characteristics of physicians who never perform CCS should be more precisely specified.

Influence of activity space on the association between neighborhood characteristics and dementia risk: results from the 3-City study cohort.

Background: Socioeconomic level of residential environment was found to influence cognitive performance. However, individuals from the same place of residence may be affected differently. We aim to investigate for the first time the influence of individual activity space on the association between neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES) and the risk of dementia.

Polar pesticide contamination of an urban and peri-urban tropical watershed affected by agricultural activities (Yaoundé, Center Region, Cameroon).

Urban agriculture is crucial to local populations, but the risk of it contaminating water has rarely been documented. The aim of this study was to assess pesticide contamination of surface waters from the Méfou watershed (Yaoundé, Cameroon) by 32 selected herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides (mainly polar) according to their local application, using both grab sampling and polar organic compounds integrative samplers (POCIS). Three sampling campaigns were conducted in the March/April and October/November 2015 and June/July 2016 rainy seasons in urban and peri-urban areas.

Sex-specific association between neighborhood characteristics and dementia: The Three-City cohort.

Introduction: The living environment affects general health and may influence cognitive aging; however, the relationships between neighborhood characteristics and dementia are still poorly understood.

Methods: We used data from a French population-based prospective study (the Three-City cohort) that included 7016 participants aged 65 years and older with a 12-year follow-up. We used principal components analysis of neighborhood composition indicators to construct the Three-City deprivation score.

Disengagement of general practitioners in cervical cancer screening.

In the absence of organized cervical cancer screening (CCS) programs, gynecologists remain principal actors in obtaining a Pap smear, followed by general practitioners (GPs). In France, with the growing scarcity of gynecologists and social inequalities in access to opportunistic screening, GPs are valuable resources for women's gynecologic follow-up. We aimed to investigate the characteristics of GPs who do not perform CCS, analyzing the effect of GPs' sex and their evolution over time.

Use of an emergency department in Saint-Laurent du Maroni, French guiana: does being undocumented make a difference?

Few data exist on the health status and heathcare utilization of the undocumented migrants in France. Data are particularly scarce in French overseas territories where this population is numerous. We aimed to describe the characteristics of undocumented patients who use the emergency department of Saint-Laurent du Maroni Hospital(SLMH) in French Guiana, and to identify factors associated with their subsequent hospitalization.

Migrant health in French Guiana: are undocumented immigrants more vulnerable?

Background: Few data exist on the health status of the immigrant population in French Guiana. The main objective of this article was to identify differences in its health status in relation to that of the native-born population.

Methods: A representative, population-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2009 among 1027 adults living in Cayenne and St-Laurent du Maroni.

The role of daily mobility in mental health inequalities: the interactive influence of activity space and neighbourhood of residence on depression.

The literature reports an association between neighbourhood deprivation and individual depression after adjustment for individual factors. The present paper investigates whether vulnerability to neighbourhood features is influenced by individual "activity space" (i.e.

Gender, socio-economic status, migration origin and neighbourhood of residence are barriers to HIV testing in the Paris metropolitan area.

In France, numerous HIV patients still discover their HIV status as a result of AIDS-related symptoms. We investigated factors related to the absence of any HIV testing in men and women separately, using the data from the SIRS cohort, which includes 3023 households representative of the Paris metropolitan area in 2005. The failure to use HIV testing services was studied in relation to individual socio-economic and demographic factors as well as some psychosocial characteristics.

Incidence of stroke and socioeconomic neighborhood characteristics: an ecological analysis of Dijon stroke registry.

Background And Purpose: Studies have shown higher stroke incidence in areas with higher levels of deprivation. We aimed to determine the pattern of association between various area socioeconomic status (SES) indicators and stroke incidence in specific sex and age groups.

Methods: Data are from the Dijon stroke registry for the period 1995 to 2003.

The combined effects of activity space and neighbourhood of residence on participation in preventive health-care activities: The case of cervical screening in the Paris metropolitan area (France).

Estimates from multilevel regression of 1768 women living in the Paris metropolitan area showed that women who reported concentrating their daily activities in their perceived neighbourhood of residence had a statistically greater likelihood of not having undergone cervical screening during the previous 2 years. Furthermore, the characteristics of the administrative neighbourhood of residence (such as the practitioner density or the proportion of residents with a recent preventive consultation) had a statistically greater impact in terms of delayed cervical screening on women who concentrated the vast majority of their daily activities within their perceived neighbourhood of residence than among those who did not. The residential environment might promote or damage, to a greater extent, the health behaviour of people whose daily activities are concentrated within their perceived neighbourhood, since we can assume that their exposure to their neighbourhood characteristics is stronger.

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From a public healthcare point of view, the Internet rapidly emerged as a potentially useful tool for providing information to patients and for promoting healthcare. While the individual factors involved in the use of online healthcare information are now well known, the effect of the area of residence has been largely ignored. The object of this study is to assess the impact of contextual characteristics associated with the neighbourhood and area of residence on the use of internet for accessing healthcare information.