June 2024

Getting information on Public Health in France and in Europe

List of bibliographic databases and available statistics

The document aims to help you to find reliable information on Public Health in France and in European Countries.

We provide below a selection of the major bibliographical and statistical resources on public health and related like health care system organization in France and in other industrialized nations, epidemiology, social security, demographics, statistics...

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►To find information on Irdes’s website :

To consult our publications :

In French :  https://www.irdes.fr/recherche/rapports-et-articles.html

In English : https://www.irdes.fr/english/all-irdes-publications.html

To consult our Documentation center database: https://doc.irdes.fr/

To consult our English working papers :

https://www.irdes.fr/english/working-papers.html

To consult our bibliographic files :

https://www.irdes.fr/documentation/syntheses-et-dossiers-bibliographiques.html

To consult our bibliographic bulletin :

https://www.irdes.fr/english/documentation/watch-on-health-economics-literature.html

To discover Eco-Santé, the health database:

https://www.irdes.fr/english/french-health-data-bases.html (archives)

To consult our useful links in France

https://www.irdes.fr/english/documentation/useful-links-on-health-economics.html

►To pursue research online :

To know where to get health information in France, refer to Health Address Book : 

https://www.irdes.fr/english/documentation/documentary-products.html 

To get information on the French health care system: https://www.irdes.fr/english/documentation/the-french-health-care-system.html  

► To find bibliographic references

Bib bop 

https://www.bib-bop.org/ 

Health education and health promotion 

EHESP 

https://documentation.ehesp.fr/ 

Insee Library

https://www.bnsp.insee.fr/bnsp/fr/content/accueil-fr 

Access to the full text of all the regular INSEE national and regional publications, as well as to the publications of several Ministerial Statistical Offices: DARES, DREES, SSP 

Inedoc 

https://campus-condorcet.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=33CCP_INST:CCP&lang=fr 

Demography database integrated in a larger one (social sciences and humanities) 

Lissa , database on health 

https://www.lissa.fr/dc/#env=lissa 

Medline  

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ 

NHS Economic Evaluation Databases   

https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/ 

Essentially English language cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness analyses 

Ofdt databases 

https://bdoc.ofdt.fr 

drugs, alcohol, tobacco 

Pediadol 

https://pediadol.org/-Mediatheque-/ 

Bibliographic database on children’s illnesses 

Pieros  

http://www.pieros.org 

Bibliographic database on health studies in the Rhône-Alpes Region 

Tripdatabase 

https://www.tripdatabase.com 

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►To find online data and figures

French and regional statistics:  

Eco-Sante,  

https://www.ecosante.fr/ 

French and regional health data (updated until 2016) 

Statiss Score Santé 

https://www.scoresante.org/tab_statis.html 

French and regional healthcare data 

Regional Statistical Observatories Tables and Health Score database 

https://www.scoresante.org/index.html 

Data on medical demography, activities, and fees 

https://www.assurance-maladie.ameli.fr/etudes-et-donnees/donnees/liste-complete-tableaux-statistiques 

Data on health and social situation in France

https://drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/recherche?f%5B0%5D=content_type%3A3

Financial data on health 

National Health Accounts 

https://drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/depenses-de-sante-et-financements 

Accounts on health, social security, prevention and by pathology 

https://drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/etudes-et-statistiques/publications/ 

Social Security Accounts 

https://www.securite-sociale.fr/la-secu-en-detail/comptes-de-la-securite-sociale/rapports-de-la-commission 

Budget and Social Security 

https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/dans-l-hemicycle/budget-et-securite-sociale 

Social security financial law 

https://www.securite-sociale.fr/la-secu-en-detail/loi-de-financement/annee-en-cours 

Expenditures of principal National Public Health Insurance scheme 

https://www.assurance-maladie.ameli.fr/etudes-et-donnees/par-theme/depenses-assurance-maladie/bases-donnees-open-data-damir-depenses-assurance-maladie  

Hospital :  

Statiss 

https://www.scoresante.org/tab_statis.html 

Pmsi Database 

https://www.atih.sante.fr/ 

Hospital statistics 

Hospital morbidity 

https://data.drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/explore/?q=morbidit%C3%A9+hospitali%C3%A8re&sort=modified 

Annual Hospital Statistics 

https://www.sae-diffusion.sante.gouv.fr/sae-diffusion/accueil.htm 

Epidemiology:  

Causes of death 

https://www.cepidc.inserm.fr 

https://www.mortality.org/Data/HCD 

Programs of epidemiological surveillance 

https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/ 

Sentiweb 

https://websenti.u707.jussieu.fr/sentiweb/?page=database 

Epidemiological databases on cancer 

http://www-dep.iarc.fr/ 

Health of newborns in France 

https://www.audipog.net/ 

►To find statistics on health care systems

Eurostat  statistics: 

Portail statistique (Eurostat) 

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database 

Health statistics Key data on health 

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/health/database 

Statistics of European Union:  

Statistics of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):  

https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT 

Statistics of the World Health Organization 

Global Health Observatory 

https://www.who.int/data/gho 

OMS Global health expenditure database 

https://apps.who.int/nha/database 

World Health Statistics 

https://www.who.int/data/gho/publications/world-health-statistics 

Statistics of the World Health Organization (Regional Office for Europe)  

European health Information Gateway 

https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/ 

Other databases : 

https://www.who.int/europe/teams/data-and-digital-health 

►To get information on health care systems

OECD  

Health: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT 

Health policy: https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/ 

Health accounts: https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-expenditure.htm 

WHO  

European Observatory of Health Care Systems and Policies:

https://eurohealthobservatory.who.int/ 

Health policy 

https://www.who.int/topics/health_policy/en/ 

Health systems 

https://www.who.int/topics/health_systems/en/ 

Health services 

https://www.who.int/topics/health_services/en/ 

Others sources :  

Health Systems and Policy Monitor 

https://eurohealthobservatory.who.int/monitors/health-systems-monitor/overview 

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research: Promoting policy research for health system development 

https://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/en/ 

►To get information on social protection

Social protection in the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=750 

Public health: https://ec.europa.eu/health/home_en 

Social Protection in the EU Member States and the European Economic Area: https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=815&langId=en 

ISSA (International Social Security Association) 

https://ww1.issa.int/ 

►To find Internet sites

To consult the list of internet sites given on our website:  

https://www.irdes.fr/english/documentation/useful-links-on-health-economics.html 

To consult the directory of francophone medical sites of Rouen University Hospital:

http://www.chu-rouen.fr/cismef/ 

►To find patient associations

The health associations directory  

https://doccismef.chu-rouen.fr/dc/#env=basic&q=association 

Patient organisations directory (Orphanet) 

https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/SupportGroup.php?lng=FR 

Health system associations accredited by the Health Department 

https://solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/ministere/acteurs/partenaires/associations-d-usagers-du-systeme-de-sante-agreees 