[Medical demography in Tunisia: current situation and perspectives].

Background: Health human resources management is one of the important determinants of health care access equity.

Aims: To analyse the trend of Tunisian medical density during 2000-2009 and to predict its situation by 2024.

Methods: Current medical density was calculated using Bar Council of Physicians of Tunisia database.

[Mortality from cancer in Tunisia: calculating years of life lost].

This work, conducted in Tunisia, aimed to calculate the number of years of life lost due to premature death caused by cancer. The data were based on mortality statistics (2006) provided by the national surveillance system of causes of death and involved calculations proposed by the World Health Organization. A total of 105,205 deaths due to cancer were recorded, 61,550 for males and 43,655 for females.