Psychosocial vulnerability of people working in informal gold mines in French Guiana: a multicentric cross-sectional survey in 2024–2025

IntroductionIn French Guiana, workers involved in illegal gold mining—mainly migrants from Brazil's poorest states—constitute a highly vulnerable population. Living and working without legal status in remote Amazonian areas, they face limited access to essential health and social services and unstable conditions (1, 2). This study aimed to describe psychosocial vulnerability in this hard-to-rea...