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  2. French paradox - Wikipedia

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    Cheese, like this Brie de Meaux, is high in saturated fats, and is a popular food in French cuisine.. The French paradox is an apparently paradoxical epidemiological observation that French people have a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD), while having a diet relatively rich in saturated fats, [1] in apparent contradiction to the widely held belief that the high ...

  3. Health in France - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy at birth in France. Life expectancy in France at birth was 81 years in 2008. [1] [2] A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by the ...

  4. Health care in France - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] For example, there was a long battle over a public health law which began in the 1880s as a campaign to reorganize the nation's health services, to require the registration of infectious diseases, to mandate quarantines, and to improve the deficient health and housing legislation of 1850. However the reformers met opposition from ...

  5. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections , an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered ...

  6. Category:Disease outbreaks in France - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Disease outbreaks in France" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. C. 1826–1837 cholera pandemic; COVID-19 pandemic in France; G.

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    After buprenorphine became an accepted treatment in France in the mid-’90s, other countries began to treat heroin addicts with the medication. Where buprenorphine has been adopted as part of public policy, it has dramatically lowered overdose death rates and improved heroin addicts’ chances of staying clean.

  8. France leads push for greater Ukraine import curbs as farmers ...

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    France said on Tuesday that it and a group of other EU countries were pushing for greater curbs on imports of food products from Ukraine to prevent the destabilisation of EU agricultural markets.

  9. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    For example, various Global Burden of Disease Studies investigate such factors and quantify recent developments – one such systematic analysis analyzed the (non)progress on cancer and its causes during the 2010–19-decade, indicating that 2019, ~44% of all cancer deaths – or ~4.5 M deaths or ~105 million lost disability-adjusted life years ...