Bruno Masquelier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 276885 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bruno Masquelier |
| PRENOMES | Bruno |
| SOBRENOME | Masquelier |
| ASSINATURA | MASQUELIER B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9585-891X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Estimates of Under-Five Mortality From a Mobile Phone Survey During the Covid-19 Outbreak
Under-five mortality estimates for low- and middle-income countries are primarily derived from detailed birth or pregnancy histories collected through in-person household surveys. Such surveys are, however, resource intensive and vulnerable to interruption during epidemic outbreaks and other crises. Remotely deployed mobile phone surveys can circumvent these disadvantages, but their suitability for measuring population-level mortality has not bee…
Measuring adult mortality from mobile phone surveys in Burkina Faso, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In many low and middle-income countries, adult mortality estimates are derived from surveys and censuses conducted through face-to-face interviews. These interviews can be time-intensive and are often impractical during health crises or humanitarian emergencies. The expansion in cellphone ownership and network coverage has created new opportunities for collecting demographic data through mobile phone surveys, but our understanding of selection bi…
Estimating adult mortality based on maternal orphanhood in populations with HIV/Aids
In countries without adequate death registration systems, adult mortality is often estimated using orphanhood-based methods. The HIV pandemic breaches several assumptions of these methods, for example, by increasing the correlation between maternal and child survival. Using microsimulations we generated 1,152 populations facing HIV epidemics and evaluated different orphanhood-based estimates against the underlying mortality rates. We regressed su…
The use of mobile phone surveys for rapid mortality monitoring
BACKGROUND: In low- and middle-income countries, death registration remains low, and mortality estimation is heavily based on surveys and censuses conducted through face-to-face interviews. These operations are costly and time-consuming, and are difficult to conduct during health and security crises. Taking advantage of the rapid increase in cell phone network coverage, mobile phone surveys (MPS) have recently started to be used to collect mortal…
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific premature mortality in Belgium, 1998–2019
Premature mortality rates have declined over time, but inequality has increased due to a faster pace of decrease in the least deprived areas compared to the most deprived areas. As the causes of death related to poor lifestyle choices contribute the most to the inequality gap, more effective, country-level interventions should be put in place to target segments of the population living in the most deprived areas as they are facing disproportionat…
Estimer la mortalité aux âges élevés dans les pays à données incomplètes
La mortalité aux âges élevés reste peu documentée dans les pays où les systèmes d'enregistrement et les statistiques de l'état civil sont incomplets. Les enquêtes comportant des questions sur la survie des parents peuvent contribuer à combler cette lacune en fournissant des estimations de la mortalité des plus de 50 ans. Notre article évalue si des biais de sélection pourrait altérer la qualité de ces estimations. Nous analysons les données de tr…
Improving old-age mortality estimation with parental survival histories in surveys
BACKGROUND: In many low- and middle-income countries, the mortality of adults over 50 years of age is poorly monitored because death registration systems are deficient. Nationally representative surveys currently focus on the survival of children or adults aged 15 to 49 years. OBJECTIVE: We propose to measure adult survival beyond age 50 via parental survival histories, in which survey respondents provide data on their parents’ ages at the time o…
Sample selection bias in adult mortality estimates from mobile phone surveys
BACKGROUNDMobile phone surveys are gaining traction in low-and middle-income countries, but mobile phone ownership (MPO) is not universal, potentially introducing sample selection bias in ensuing estimates. OBJECTIVETo evaluate MPO-associated sample selection bias in adult mortality estimates from sibling survival histories (SSH) administered to women of reproductive age. METHODSUsing data from 25 Demographic and Health Surveys, we (1) used logis…
Excess mortality associated with the Covid-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 waves in Antananarivo, Madagascar
INTRODUCTION: COVID-19-associated mortality remains difficult to estimate in sub-Saharan Africa because of the lack of comprehensive systems of death registration. Based on death registers referring to the capital city of Madagascar, we sought to estimate the excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic and calculate the loss of life expectancy. METHODS: Death records between 2016 and 2021 were used to estimate weekly excess mortality during the…
Global, regional, and national trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2019 with scenario-based projections until 2030
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set in 2015 by the UN General Assembly, call for all countries to reach an under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) of at least as low as 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths and a neonatal mortality rate (NMR) of at least as low as 12 deaths per 1000 livebirths by 2030. We estimated levels and trends in under-5 mortality for 195 countries from 1990 to 2019, and conducted scenario-based projections of the U5MR …
Inequalities in mortality associated with housing conditions in Belgium between 1991 and 2020
Thousands of deaths in Belgium could be avoided if all Belgian neighborhoods had the mortality rates of the least deprived areas in terms of housing. Hotspots of housing inequalities need to be located and targeted with tailored public actions
The shifting rural-urban gap in mortality over the life course in low- and middle-income countries
Studies have shown that children in rural areas face excess risks of dying, but the little research on spatial inequalities in adult mortality has reached mixed conclusions. We examine rural-urban differences in mortality in 53 low- and middle-income countries. We consider how the rural-urban mortality gap evolves from birth to age 60 by estimating mortality based on birth and sibling histories from 138 Demographic and Health Surveys run between …
Estimating mortality from census data
In low- and middle-income countries, mortality levels are commonly derived from retrospective reports on deceased relatives collected in sample surveys and censuses. These data sources are potentially affected by recall errors
Errors in reported ages and dates in surveys of adult mortality
Sibling survival histories are a major source of adult mortality estimates in countries with incomplete death registration. We evaluate age and date reporting errors in sibling histories collected during a validation study in the Niakhar Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Senegal). Participants were randomly assigned to either the Demographic and Health Survey questionnaire or a questionnaire incorporating an event history calendar, reca…
Long-term trends in seasonality of mortality in urban Madagascar
Background: Seasonal patterns of mortality have been identified in Sub-Saharan Africa but their changes over time are not well documented.Objective: Based on death notification data from Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar, this study assesses seasonal patterns of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by age groups and evaluates how these patterns changed over the period 1976–2015.Methods: Monthly numbers of deaths by cause were obtaine…
Socioeconomic factors contributing to under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
Factors related to socioeconomic status exert varied effects on the variability in U5M in sub-Saharan African countries. The findings provide evidence in support of prioritizing intersectoral interventions aiming at improving child survival in all subgroups of a population
Estimating mortality from external causes using data from retrospective surveys
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), data on causes of death is often inaccurate or incomplete. In this paper, we test whether adding a few questions about injuries and accidents to mortality questionnaires used in representative household surveys
Tendances et inégalités de mortalité de 1990 à 2015 dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire
Entre 1990 et 2015, la plupart des pays en développement ont connu des progrès notables de leur espérance de vie, mais d'ampleur très diverse. Cet article fait le point sur l'évolution de la mortalité des enfants (à moins de 5 ans) et de la mortalité adulte (de 15 à 60 ans) dans les 109 pays à bas et moyen revenu de plus d'un million d'habitants. Il met l'accent sur l'évolution des disparités géographiques et de sexe entre pays, et sur les inégal…
Health at the borders
BACKGROUND: Women's malnutrition, particularly undernutrition, remains an important public health challenge in Ethiopia. Although various studies examined the levels and determinants of women's nutritional status, the influence of living close to an international border on women's nutrition has not been investigated. Yet, Ethiopian borders are regularly affected by conflict and refugee flows, which might ultimately impact health. OBJECTIVE: To in…
The epidemiological transition in Antananarivo, Madagascar
BACKGROUND: Madagascar today has one of the highest life expectancies in sub-Saharan Africa, despite being among the poorest countries in the continent. There are relatively few detailed accounts of the epidemiological transition in this country due to the lack of a comprehensive death registration system at the national level. However, in Madagascar's capital city, death registration was established around the start of the 20th century and is no…
Divergences in trends in child and adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper provides an overview of trends in mortality in children aged under 5 and adults between the ages of 15 and 60 in sub-Saharan Africa, using data on the survival of the children and siblings collected in Demographic and Health Surveys. If conspicuous stalls in the 1990s are disregarded, child mortality levels have generally declined and converged over the last 30-40 years. In contrast, adult mortality in many East and Southern African co…
Taille des fratries et taille des familles dans les données d'enquêtes utilisées pour estimer la mortalité
Les données d'enquêtes recueillies sur la survie des frères et sœurs constituent une source incontournable pour estimer la mortalité des adultes dans les pays où l'état civil reste incomplet. Cet article évalue la qualité de ces données en comparant la taille des fratries déclarées dans les enquêtes démographiques et de santé avec le nombre moyen d'enfants nés vivants des femmes de la génération précédente. Cette comparaison, menée au niveau agré…
Adult Mortality From Sibling Survival Data
Because of incomplete registration of deaths in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, data on the survival of close relatives constitute the cornerstone of estimates of adult mortality. Since 1990, sibling histories have been widely collected in Demographic and Health Surveys and are increasingly being relied upon to estimate both general and maternal mortality. Until recently, the use of sibling histories was thought to lead to underestimates of…
Adult Mortality From Sibling Survival Data
Because of incomplete registration of deaths in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, data on the survival of close relatives constitute the cornerstone of estimates of adult mortality. Since 1990, sibling histories have been widely collected in Demographic and Health Surveys and are increasingly being relied upon to estimate both general and maternal mortality. Until recently, the use of sibling histories was thought to lead to underestimates of…
Divergences in trends in child and adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper provides an overview of trends in mortality in children aged under 5 and adults between the ages of 15 and 60 in sub-Saharan Africa, using data on the survival of the children and siblings collected in Demographic and Health Surveys. If conspicuous stalls in the 1990s are disregarded, child mortality levels have generally declined and converged over the last 30-40 years. In contrast, adult mortality in many East and Southern African co…
Tendances et inégalités de mortalité de 1990 à 2015 dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire
Entre 1990 et 2015, la plupart des pays en développement ont connu des progrès notables de leur espérance de vie, mais d'ampleur très diverse. Cet article fait le point sur l'évolution de la mortalité des enfants (à moins de 5 ans) et de la mortalité adulte (de 15 à 60 ans) dans les 109 pays à bas et moyen revenu de plus d'un million d'habitants. Il met l'accent sur l'évolution des disparités géographiques et de sexe entre pays, et sur les inégal…
Errors in reported ages and dates in surveys of adult mortality
Sibling survival histories are a major source of adult mortality estimates in countries with incomplete death registration. We evaluate age and date reporting errors in sibling histories collected during a validation study in the Niakhar Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Senegal). Participants were randomly assigned to either the Demographic and Health Survey questionnaire or a questionnaire incorporating an event history calendar, reca…
Taille des fratries et taille des familles dans les données d'enquêtes utilisées pour estimer la mortalité
Les données d'enquêtes recueillies sur la survie des frères et sœurs constituent une source incontournable pour estimer la mortalité des adultes dans les pays où l'état civil reste incomplet. Cet article évalue la qualité de ces données en comparant la taille des fratries déclarées dans les enquêtes démographiques et de santé avec le nombre moyen d'enfants nés vivants des femmes de la génération précédente. Cette comparaison, menée au niveau agré…
Estimer la mortalité aux âges élevés dans les pays à données incomplètes
La mortalité aux âges élevés reste peu documentée dans les pays où les systèmes d'enregistrement et les statistiques de l'état civil sont incomplets. Les enquêtes comportant des questions sur la survie des parents peuvent contribuer à combler cette lacune en fournissant des estimations de la mortalité des plus de 50 ans. Notre article évalue si des biais de sélection pourrait altérer la qualité de ces estimations. Nous analysons les données de tr…
The shifting rural-urban gap in mortality over the life course in low- and middle-income countries
Studies have shown that children in rural areas face excess risks of dying, but the little research on spatial inequalities in adult mortality has reached mixed conclusions. We examine rural-urban differences in mortality in 53 low- and middle-income countries. We consider how the rural-urban mortality gap evolves from birth to age 60 by estimating mortality based on birth and sibling histories from 138 Demographic and Health Surveys run between …
Improving old-age mortality estimation with parental survival histories in surveys
BACKGROUND: In many low- and middle-income countries, the mortality of adults over 50 years of age is poorly monitored because death registration systems are deficient. Nationally representative surveys currently focus on the survival of children or adults aged 15 to 49 years. OBJECTIVE: We propose to measure adult survival beyond age 50 via parental survival histories, in which survey respondents provide data on their parents’ ages at the time o…
Estimating mortality from census data
In low- and middle-income countries, mortality levels are commonly derived from retrospective reports on deceased relatives collected in sample surveys and censuses. These data sources are potentially affected by recall errors
Adult Mortality From Sibling Survival Data
Because of incomplete registration of deaths in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, data on the survival of close relatives constitute the cornerstone of estimates of adult mortality. Since 1990, sibling histories have been widely collected in Demographic and Health Surveys and are increasingly being relied upon to estimate both general and maternal mortality. Until recently, the use of sibling histories was thought to lead to underestimates of…
The epidemiological transition in Antananarivo, Madagascar
BACKGROUND: Madagascar today has one of the highest life expectancies in sub-Saharan Africa, despite being among the poorest countries in the continent. There are relatively few detailed accounts of the epidemiological transition in this country due to the lack of a comprehensive death registration system at the national level. However, in Madagascar's capital city, death registration was established around the start of the 20th century and is no…
Divergences in trends in child and adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper provides an overview of trends in mortality in children aged under 5 and adults between the ages of 15 and 60 in sub-Saharan Africa, using data on the survival of the children and siblings collected in Demographic and Health Surveys. If conspicuous stalls in the 1990s are disregarded, child mortality levels have generally declined and converged over the last 30-40 years. In contrast, adult mortality in many East and Southern African co…
Taille des fratries et taille des familles dans les données d'enquêtes utilisées pour estimer la mortalité
Les données d'enquêtes recueillies sur la survie des frères et sœurs constituent une source incontournable pour estimer la mortalité des adultes dans les pays où l'état civil reste incomplet. Cet article évalue la qualité de ces données en comparant la taille des fratries déclarées dans les enquêtes démographiques et de santé avec le nombre moyen d'enfants nés vivants des femmes de la génération précédente. Cette comparaison, menée au niveau agré…
Health at the borders
BACKGROUND: Women's malnutrition, particularly undernutrition, remains an important public health challenge in Ethiopia. Although various studies examined the levels and determinants of women's nutritional status, the influence of living close to an international border on women's nutrition has not been investigated. Yet, Ethiopian borders are regularly affected by conflict and refugee flows, which might ultimately impact health. OBJECTIVE: To in…
Tendances et inégalités de mortalité de 1990 à 2015 dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire
Entre 1990 et 2015, la plupart des pays en développement ont connu des progrès notables de leur espérance de vie, mais d'ampleur très diverse. Cet article fait le point sur l'évolution de la mortalité des enfants (à moins de 5 ans) et de la mortalité adulte (de 15 à 60 ans) dans les 109 pays à bas et moyen revenu de plus d'un million d'habitants. Il met l'accent sur l'évolution des disparités géographiques et de sexe entre pays, et sur les inégal…
Estimating mortality from external causes using data from retrospective surveys
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), data on causes of death is often inaccurate or incomplete. In this paper, we test whether adding a few questions about injuries and accidents to mortality questionnaires used in representative household surveys
Socioeconomic factors contributing to under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
Factors related to socioeconomic status exert varied effects on the variability in U5M in sub-Saharan African countries. The findings provide evidence in support of prioritizing intersectoral interventions aiming at improving child survival in all subgroups of a population
Long-term trends in seasonality of mortality in urban Madagascar
Background: Seasonal patterns of mortality have been identified in Sub-Saharan Africa but their changes over time are not well documented.Objective: Based on death notification data from Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar, this study assesses seasonal patterns of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by age groups and evaluates how these patterns changed over the period 1976–2015.Methods: Monthly numbers of deaths by cause were obtaine…
Errors in reported ages and dates in surveys of adult mortality
Sibling survival histories are a major source of adult mortality estimates in countries with incomplete death registration. We evaluate age and date reporting errors in sibling histories collected during a validation study in the Niakhar Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Senegal). Participants were randomly assigned to either the Demographic and Health Survey questionnaire or a questionnaire incorporating an event history calendar, reca…
Global, regional, and national trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2019 with scenario-based projections until 2030
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set in 2015 by the UN General Assembly, call for all countries to reach an under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) of at least as low as 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths and a neonatal mortality rate (NMR) of at least as low as 12 deaths per 1000 livebirths by 2030. We estimated levels and trends in under-5 mortality for 195 countries from 1990 to 2019, and conducted scenario-based projections of the U5MR …
Inequalities in mortality associated with housing conditions in Belgium between 1991 and 2020
Thousands of deaths in Belgium could be avoided if all Belgian neighborhoods had the mortality rates of the least deprived areas in terms of housing. Hotspots of housing inequalities need to be located and targeted with tailored public actions
The shifting rural-urban gap in mortality over the life course in low- and middle-income countries
Studies have shown that children in rural areas face excess risks of dying, but the little research on spatial inequalities in adult mortality has reached mixed conclusions. We examine rural-urban differences in mortality in 53 low- and middle-income countries. We consider how the rural-urban mortality gap evolves from birth to age 60 by estimating mortality based on birth and sibling histories from 138 Demographic and Health Surveys run between …
Estimating mortality from census data
In low- and middle-income countries, mortality levels are commonly derived from retrospective reports on deceased relatives collected in sample surveys and censuses. These data sources are potentially affected by recall errors
Excess mortality associated with the Covid-19 pandemic during the 2020 and 2021 waves in Antananarivo, Madagascar
INTRODUCTION: COVID-19-associated mortality remains difficult to estimate in sub-Saharan Africa because of the lack of comprehensive systems of death registration. Based on death registers referring to the capital city of Madagascar, we sought to estimate the excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic and calculate the loss of life expectancy. METHODS: Death records between 2016 and 2021 were used to estimate weekly excess mortality during the…
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific premature mortality in Belgium, 1998–2019
Premature mortality rates have declined over time, but inequality has increased due to a faster pace of decrease in the least deprived areas compared to the most deprived areas. As the causes of death related to poor lifestyle choices contribute the most to the inequality gap, more effective, country-level interventions should be put in place to target segments of the population living in the most deprived areas as they are facing disproportionat…
Estimer la mortalité aux âges élevés dans les pays à données incomplètes
La mortalité aux âges élevés reste peu documentée dans les pays où les systèmes d'enregistrement et les statistiques de l'état civil sont incomplets. Les enquêtes comportant des questions sur la survie des parents peuvent contribuer à combler cette lacune en fournissant des estimations de la mortalité des plus de 50 ans. Notre article évalue si des biais de sélection pourrait altérer la qualité de ces estimations. Nous analysons les données de tr…
Improving old-age mortality estimation with parental survival histories in surveys
BACKGROUND: In many low- and middle-income countries, the mortality of adults over 50 years of age is poorly monitored because death registration systems are deficient. Nationally representative surveys currently focus on the survival of children or adults aged 15 to 49 years. OBJECTIVE: We propose to measure adult survival beyond age 50 via parental survival histories, in which survey respondents provide data on their parents’ ages at the time o…
Sample selection bias in adult mortality estimates from mobile phone surveys
BACKGROUNDMobile phone surveys are gaining traction in low-and middle-income countries, but mobile phone ownership (MPO) is not universal, potentially introducing sample selection bias in ensuing estimates. OBJECTIVETo evaluate MPO-associated sample selection bias in adult mortality estimates from sibling survival histories (SSH) administered to women of reproductive age. METHODSUsing data from 25 Demographic and Health Surveys, we (1) used logis…
Measuring adult mortality from mobile phone surveys in Burkina Faso, Malawi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In many low and middle-income countries, adult mortality estimates are derived from surveys and censuses conducted through face-to-face interviews. These interviews can be time-intensive and are often impractical during health crises or humanitarian emergencies. The expansion in cellphone ownership and network coverage has created new opportunities for collecting demographic data through mobile phone surveys, but our understanding of selection bi…
Estimating adult mortality based on maternal orphanhood in populations with HIV/Aids
In countries without adequate death registration systems, adult mortality is often estimated using orphanhood-based methods. The HIV pandemic breaches several assumptions of these methods, for example, by increasing the correlation between maternal and child survival. Using microsimulations we generated 1,152 populations facing HIV epidemics and evaluated different orphanhood-based estimates against the underlying mortality rates. We regressed su…
The use of mobile phone surveys for rapid mortality monitoring
BACKGROUND: In low- and middle-income countries, death registration remains low, and mortality estimation is heavily based on surveys and censuses conducted through face-to-face interviews. These operations are costly and time-consuming, and are difficult to conduct during health and security crises. Taking advantage of the rapid increase in cell phone network coverage, mobile phone surveys (MPS) have recently started to be used to collect mortal…
Estimates of Under-Five Mortality From a Mobile Phone Survey During the Covid-19 Outbreak
Under-five mortality estimates for low- and middle-income countries are primarily derived from detailed birth or pregnancy histories collected through in-person household surveys. Such surveys are, however, resource intensive and vulnerable to interruption during epidemic outbreaks and other crises. Remotely deployed mobile phone surveys can circumvent these disadvantages, but their suitability for measuring population-level mortality has not bee…
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