Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon

Mental Health Inequalities: Prevalence of Depression and Health-Seeking Behaviors in the General Population of French Guiana

Background: The population of French Guiana is young, poor, and multicultural. We thus hypothesized that the epidemiology of depression and its care may differ from that in mainland France. We took the opportunity of the Mental Health in the General Population survey to estimate...

Predictors of vaso-occlusive crisis-related emergency department encounters in children with sickle cell disease in Western French Guiana

Vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs) are a major cause of emergency department (ED) utilization in children with sickle cell disease (SCD). In Western French Guiana, recurrent VOC-related ED encounters may reflect both disease severity and barriers to longitudinal preventive care. We con...