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Yahoo
03-08-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Women GPs outnumber male counterparts for first time in France
Half of the doctors practicing in France are women and more than half are GPs. This is to according to data from France's national statistics agency published this week. The Directorate for Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) found that between the beginning of 2012 and the beginning of 2025, the number of doctors overall increased by 9.9 percent. This has been especially noticeable in the last two years which saw a rise of 1.4 percent between 1 January 2023 and 2024 and 1.6 percent between 1 January 2024 and 2025. Drees says that as of January this year, 50 percent of doctors are women, a significant rise from 41 percent in 2012. Of the 237,214 doctors in practice in France (including 100,000 general practitioners), the number of women (118,957) exceeded their male counterparts (118,257) for the first time in 2025. In specialist sectors, women make up 97 percent of midwives and podiatrists, with a rise seen in the number of dental surgeons in the past 13 years, Drees says. Rise in foreign doctors The overall rise in the number of doctors is due to several factors, including more doctors with foreign qualifications. On 1 January 2025, 11 percent of doctors had a foreign qualification compared to 7 percent on 1 January 2012. The number of training places has also increased, with a strong uptake between 2000 and 2020. France moves towards professional equality for doctors trained outside the EU The study also showed that doctors are getting younger, with the average age down from 51.1 years in 2012 to 49.9 years in 2025. The proportion of doctors under 40 has increased sharply, from 17 percent at the beginning of 2012 to 31 percent at the beginning of 2025.
Yahoo
03-08-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Women GPs outnumber male counterparts for first time in France
Half of the doctors practicing in France are women and more than half are GPs. This is to according to data from France's national statistics agency published this week. The Directorate for Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) found that between the beginning of 2012 and the beginning of 2025, the number of doctors overall increased by 9.9 percent. This has been especially noticeable in the last two years which saw a rise of 1.4 percent between 1 January 2023 and 2024 and 1.6 percent between 1 January 2024 and 2025. Drees says that as of January this year, 50 percent of doctors are women, a significant rise from 41 percent in 2012. Of the 237,214 doctors in practice in France (including 100,000 general practitioners), the number of women (118,957) exceeded their male counterparts (118,257) for the first time in 2025. In specialist sectors, women make up 97 percent of midwives and podiatrists, with a rise seen in the number of dental surgeons in the past 13 years, Drees says. Rise in foreign doctors The overall rise in the number of doctors is due to several factors, including more doctors with foreign qualifications. On 1 January 2025, 11 percent of doctors had a foreign qualification compared to 7 percent on 1 January 2012. The number of training places has also increased, with a strong uptake between 2000 and 2020. France moves towards professional equality for doctors trained outside the EU The study also showed that doctors are getting younger, with the average age down from 51.1 years in 2012 to 49.9 years in 2025. The proportion of doctors under 40 has increased sharply, from 17 percent at the beginning of 2012 to 31 percent at the beginning of 2025.
Local France
11-07-2025
- Health
- Local France
France's death rate at ‘historically low' level
Newly published figures reveal that 637,082 residents of France died in 2023, down 36,000 on the previous year, and setting a mortality rate of 828.3 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure down 60 on 2022. The immediate downward trend is largely due to the drop in mortality caused by COVID-19 – accounting for 60 percent of the decrease, according to a joint study by the Direction de la recherche, des études, de l'évaluation et des statistiques (DREES), the Centre d'épidémiologie des causes médicales de décès de l'Inserm (CépiDc-Inserm) and Santé publique France. However the numbers also reflect a general trend of falling death rates that was seen in the pre-pandemic period. Advertisement The report, out a day after another study revealed that fewer babies were born in 2024 than in any year since the Second World War, raises questions about the future of France's social care system. READ ALSO Why French women want fewer babies 'Smaller declines are also observed for most of the major causes [of death],' the report said, which notes two exceptions: mortality from respiratory diseases and mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases, which are slightly on the rise. Despite much lower death rates than in the 2020-2022 period, Covid remained the ninth most common cause of death in 2023. Anne Fouillet, from Santé Publique France, told French newspaper Libération : "Covid mortality has followed the decline in circulation of the epidemic, which has been associated with immunisation of the population - thanks in particular to vaccination. "But it still caused 14,000 deaths in 2023, mostly among the elderly - 63 percent of the dead were aged 85 or over." The leading causes of death for both men and women remains cancer which account for more than 27 percent of deaths in France. Cancer affects a younger population on average than other causes of mortality – and are the leading cause of death among children aged one to 14, after external causes such as accidents or road traffic collisions. However, according to the report, cancer deaths are declining, 'with the exception of pancreatic cancer, which is on the rise, and lung, bronchial, and tracheal cancer in women.' Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases – heart attack, stroke, heart failure – are the second leading cause of death, accounting for 21.4 percent of deaths, down slightly on figures from 2022. Advertisement These are followed, in order, by 'ill-defined symptoms and conditions,' external causes of morbidity (eg car accidents) diseases of the respiratory system (including Covid), diseases of the nervous system and sensory organs, and diseases of the digestive system. Although it is still hard to precisely disentangle the effects of the pandemic on deaths, the report's authors say that overall the deaths rates remain slightly higher than suggested by the continuation of pre-Covid trends. More than half of all deaths in France (53 percent) occur in healthcare facilities (public or private) and almost a quarter at home (24 percent). Nearly 30 percent of deaths at home involve people receiving home hospital care, up from 2022. French life expectancy currently sits at 85.3 years for females and 79.4 years for males. France also does well for the expected years of 'healthy life' - women on average in France can expect to live until the age of 64.5 years without suffering any debilitating health problem, while the average age for men living a healthy life is 63.4 years. READ ALSO : Why do the French live so long?✎
Euronews
26-01-2025
- Health
- Euronews
This country is the most depressed in Europe. How does yours compare?
France may have had the highest pre-pandemic depression level among European countries, according to a new analysis of a 2019 health survey across the continent. The analysis from the statistical arm of France's health and social ministries (DREES) found that the depression rate in France was around 11 per cent pre-pandemic, which was the highest of any other European country. The report was based on data from the European Health Interview Survey, which is carried out every six years, and included some 300,000 people across the European Union, Norway, Iceland, and Serbia. This was the first time the DREES used the 2019 survey to measure depression and the prevalence was estimated based on eight questions from the Patient Health Questionnaire. The analysis looked at "whether or not a person had suffered from depressive syndromes over the last two weeks based on a series of criteria," Lisa Troy, the study's author from the directorate's research and international studies department, told Euronews Health. It comes as multiple studies have pointed to a growing mental health crisis in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among young people in France and other European countries. The new DREES report also focused on young people aged 15 to 24 and older people aged 70 and up. Jocelyne Caboche, emeritus research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research's (CNRS) Neuroscience Sorbonne University lab (Neuro-SU), told Euronews Health that while she did not have an explanation for France seeing a "relatively" higher level of depression compared to other countries, it could be due an "accumulation of elements". "While we are relatively well taken care of in terms of health and education, there still needs to be significant efforts made in caring for the elderly," said Caboche, who was not involved in the study. She added that depression could improve with better investment in psychiatry and therapeutic innovation. What factors contribute to depression in European countries? Overall, the new analysis showed that the highest depression levels were in northern and western European countries. But while depression is rare among younger people in southern and eastern European countries, it is higher among people aged 70 and older in those countries, the report found. Depression rates were over 15 per cent among older individuals in Portugal, Romania, and Croatia, for instance. Older women were also more depressed than older men, according to the survey data, and older Europeans in poor health were more prone to depression. With more older Europeans reporting poor health in eastern and southern European countries, this could explain the higher prevalence of depression there, the report's authors said. "For example, in Croatia or Latvia, where nearly 40 per cent of seniors report poor health, the prevalence of depression is high: 16 per cent and 9 per cent respectively," the report authors noted. Being socially isolated and widowed also appeared to impact depression among older individuals. For younger Europeans, the highest rates of depression were in Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, followed by western European countries. Depression among young people was lower in eastern and southern European countries. "I was impressed by the differences between depression rates among young people and older people in southeastern [European] countries and inversely by the idea that young people were very depressed in [northern European countries] and that it's the only region where among older people, depression decreased by age," Troy said. In countries with higher rates of depression among young people, it was linked to social isolation, not having a professional activity or going to school, and income level. Caboche added that social media can also play a role "by promoting harmful social comparisons, concerns around body image particularly among girls, reducing the duration of sleep, and increasing the risks of cyber-harassment". Poor health among young people also significantly raised the risk of depression by some 32 percentage points, the report found. It added that the EHIS data may have limitations including differences in questionnaire methods on mental health issues between countries.
