Documentary resources
La banque de données en santé publique (BDSP – Public Health Database)
The BDSP network is a group of organisations managed by the EHESP.
The BDSP network was set up on the initiative of the General Health Management and, since 1993, has been providing on-line information services for professionals in the health and welfare field.
Go to the BDSP website
EHESP library
The EHESP library manages 15,000 publications and reports, 450 magazines and 9,000 theses and student reports, the most recent of which can be accessed in full text on this website.
About the library
Go to the EHESP library catalogue
EHESP theses
These theses, published with the permission of the authors, have been selected according to the assessment of the examiners. You can read and print all or extracts from the theses using Acrobat Reader.
- Theses presented in 2010
- Theses presented in 2009
- Theses presented in 2008
- Theses presented in 2007
- Theses presented in 2006
- Theses presented in 2005
- Theses presented in 2004
- Theses presented in 2003
- Theses presented in 2002
- Theses presented in 2001
- Theses presented in 2000
- Theses presented in 1999
Interprofessional public health modules
Since 1999, reports produced by interprofessional modules, bringing together about ten undergraduates from a number of different branches, have dealt with public health priorities.
Go to the reports
Watch bulletins and newsletters
Public and environmental health watch newsletter
The Environmental health and health at work department (DSET) of the EHESP continuously monitors the publication of public on-line documents in the health, environment and work field related to public health. These documents may also include issues of international magazines (science watch), official reports, study reports, on-line courses, conference minutes, theses, etc.
This newsletter is issued once every 3 weeks (17 to 20 issues per year) and the active table of contents covers the themes of welfare news, public and environmental health – workplace health, infection risk, chemical risk, physical risk, air pollution, cancer and news items.
If you wish to receive the DSET watch newsletter by e-mail, please contact Eve Gallacier
Download watch newsletter n°8 July 2010 (pdf, 217 kb)
Download watch newsletter n°7 Juin 2010 (pdf, 180 kb)
Archives of the newsletter
EHESP documentation service literature watch report
Every month the EHESP documentation service publishes a literature watch report. This report lists recent articles relating to 12 serious pathologies that have been published in international scientific magazines. This report also lists official and institutional reports available in full text.
If you would like to receive the literature watch report each month by e-mail, please contact Séverine Marchand.
Download the July 2010 issue of “Focus sur 12 pathologies graves” (pdf, 392 kb)
Download the June 2010 issue of “Focus sur 12 pathologies graves” (pdf, 399kb)
Archives of the literature watch report
EHESP documentation service newsletter
The EHESP documentation service publishes an electronic newsletter twice a month. This contains a selection of information about new publications in the health and welfare field. It also provides details of new publications, research tools and carefully selected websites approved by the EHESP librarians.
If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please contact the documentation service: Bibliotheque.Uda@ehesp.fr
Download Newsletter n°28 (pdf, 590 kb)
Download Newsletter n°27 (pdf, 595 kb)
Legal watch bulletin published by the EHESP documentation service
This bi-monthly bulletin gives news on legislation and regulations in the health and welfare sector:
- legislation (laws published in the French Official Journal and Official Journal of the European Union, draft laws and preparatory documents),
- regulations (circulars and decisions),
- articles in periodicals, doctrine.
If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please contact the documentation service: veille.documentation@ehesp.fr
Download the legal watch n°38 (pdf, 170 kb)
Download the legal watch n°37 (pdf, 165 kb)
Archives of the legal watch bulletin
Teaching resources
On-line teaching resources (REAL)
The REAL platform is designed to enable students to have on-line access to teaching resources considered essential by teachers and course managers (course material, exercices, timetable, use of office automation software, etc.).
REAL has more than 2,000 registered users.
Contact: real@ehesp.fr
Go to REAL (access restricted to EHESP students).
EpiInfo
The EpiInfo program has been designed to collect and analyse quantitative public health data.
More about EpiInfo (pdf, 6 kb)
The following versions of the software can be downloaded.
Instructions : create a directory on the hard disk of your computer using Windows Explorer. Download the file to this directory and decompress it.
Then open the folder holding the file and double-click the file. Then follow the instructions on the screen.
Download
- French version of EpiInfo 6.04d (zip, 5 mb)
- Windows version of EpiInfo (NB, large file of 69 mb)
EpiData
- French version of EpiData (zip, 1,2 mb)
- English version of EpiData (zip, 2 mb)
EHESP publications
Publications, software and multimedia for professionals and other people in the health, welfare and care fields. Publications on human and social sciences dealing with major themes or issues specific to this field.
Go to the EHESP publications website

