Five years after the previous edition, the 2024 issue of the Panorama La complémentaire santé provides a comprehensive description of the complementary health insurance sector in France. It describes recent developments in the population's coverage for complementary health care, the activity of complementary health insurance companies and organisations, and the coverage offered by insurance plans.
Over the past fifteen years, the number of hospital admissions for self-harm (including attempted suicide and self-inflicted injuries) has shown markedly different trends based on age and gender.. Among young women aged 10 to 24, these admissions have risen sharply since late 2020. Conversely, for individuals aged 30 to 55, both for men and for women, the number of such admissions has steadily[...]
A study of air pollution-related health inequalities in young children shows that, in addition to differences in exposure that disadvantage young children from the richest and poorest households, there are large differences in vulnerability to air pollution that disadvantage the poorest.
In 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak resulted in 69,000 deaths in France (10.4% of deaths), making it the third leading cause of death for that year. Just over half of the COVID-19 victims were 85 years old or above, with men who died of COVID-19 being younger, on average, than women. The most common causes of death in 2020 were still tumours (25.6%) and cardiovascular diseases (20.2%). However, the[...]
Between 2016 and 2017, the poorest 10% in France more often developed a chronic disease than the wealthiest 10%, with comparable age and sex: 2.8 times more cases of diabetes, 2.2 times more liver or pancreatic diseases, 2.0 times more psychiatric conditions, 1.6 times more chronic respiratory diseases, 1.5 times more neurological or degenerative diseases and 1.4 times more cardiovascular diseases[...]
