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Risques, Epidémiologie, Territoires, Informations, Education et Santé (RETINES)

Address :
Pasteur Campus - 28 avenue de Valombrose
06107 Nice Cedex 2
Phone :
0493377645
Email :
pascal.staccini@univ-cotedazur.fr
Additional contact details :
RISQUES, EPIDÉMIOLOGIE, TERRITOIRES, INFORMATIONS, EDUCATION ET SANTÉ ( URE RETINES )
RISQUES, EPIDÉMIOLOGIE, TERRITOIRES, INFORMATIONS, EDUCATION ET SANTÉ ( URE RETINES )

General information

Affiliated institutions :

Université Côte d'Azur

Departments : DS 5 : Biologie Médecine et Santé

Organization

Director(s) :
Staff
L’The Emerging Research Unit (URE) "Risks, Epidemiology, Territories, Information, Education and Health" (RETINES) aims to develop an ambitious program in public health and primary care on the relationships between "risks" "territories" "populations” and “individuals” in connection with the analysis of digital health data from a variety of sources (outpatient, hospital, health care consumption, prescriptions, etc.), observation and analysis of professional practices (evaluative epidemiology), information practices (through digital technology) and training (through simulations) and understanding of health literacy levels. RETINES is a specialist multidisciplinary unit in public health and primary care, going beyond the purely clinical question to create the transversality necessary to model regional vulnerability and risk factors determining health outcomes. It is structured around 4 lines of research aimed at expressing vulnerability (risk) following an exposure and evaluating its impact:  
  • VulTerr team (Vulnerabilities and territories) – analysis of population vulnerabilities, inequalities and their distribution in the region; 
  • VulOrP team (Vulnerabilities, organizations and practices) – analysis of health practices, the relevance of care, study of trajectories and their distribution in the region; 
  • VulFoC team (Vulnerabilities, training and knowledge) – design and analysis of the impact of information and training actions aimed at prevention, health literacy, uses of simulations and gamification techniques; 
  • VulNum team (Vulnerabilities and digital health) – analysis of digital vulnerability (improvement, deterioration) for an individual or collective approach (social media), epistemological and ethical approach 

Activities

Research topics

URE RETINES is the first research unit in public health and primary care to be established in the environment and history of Université Côte d'Azur. The emergence of digital epidemiology and the application of data mining methods to masses of consolidated, heterogeneous, structured or unstructured data from multiple sources are laying the groundwork for a new nondeterministic approach to collective and individual decision-making in public health. This approach involves the meeting of several academic disciplines and areas of expertise, previously working in silos, to produce knowledge (risk and vulnerability), qualify it and describe it in 5 dimensions  (territories, environments, organizations, behaviors and technologies). It is therefore a question of adapting the classic definition of epidemiology (the description of health conditions  in space and time, and research into their determinants) to the expression of a composite individual risk (exposome). 

The unit is located on the Pasteur Campus, on the premises of the IRIS (Health Risk Management and Informatics) department in charge of the Master’s degree in Health Engineering (ISA), which is supported by RETINES. The ISA Master has 8 tracks closely connected with the research themes of RETINES, in particular the 2D2S, ORESP, RECLINT and P3S tracks.