Jean‐marie Robine
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4428756 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jean‐marie Robine |
| PRENOMES | Jean‐marie |
| SOBRENOME | Robine |
| ASSINATURA | ROBINE J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Inserm |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4111-6195 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 273 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Care-led innovation
As life expectancy increases, older adults have a higher probability of experiencing various forms of physical frailty and social vulnerability, challenging their autonomy and independent living. In this context, new technologies specifically designed to meet their needs are developed and marketed. While their positive contributions are acknowledged, actors in the field and the scientific literature alike have identified significant limitations. …
Vivre au-delà de 105 ans
Le nombre de décès aux très grands âges a considérablement augmenté dans les deux dernières décennies. Le décompte exact de ces décès que documente la base de données internationale sur la longévité n’est établi qu’après un processus strict de validation de l’âge. Ce sont essentiellement des femmes qui atteignent ces grands âges. Les supercentenaires (110 ans ou plus) sont surreprésentés aux Antilles
Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022
Over 70,000 excess deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003. The resulting societal awareness led to the design and implementation of adaptation strategies to protect at-risk populations. We aimed to quantify heat-related mortality burden during the summer of 2022, the hottest season on record in Europe. We analyzed the Eurostat mortality database, which includes 45,184,044 counts of death from 823 contiguous regions in 35 European cou…
The question of the human mortality plateau
The debate about limits to the human life span is often based on outcomes from mortality at the oldest ages among longevity pioneers. To this day, scholars disagree on the existence of a late-life plateau in human mortality. Amid various statistical analys
Jeanne Calment et les super-centenaires
International Network on Health Expectancies and the Disablement Process (Reves)
Différences de mortalité par Covid-19
L'urgence que représente la compréhension de la pandémie de Covid-19 a entraîné des différences considérables entre les procédures de collecte des données des pays concernés, qui s'efforcent tous de produire des informations en temps réel mais qui restent des statistiques de mortalité imparfaites. Pour remédier à ce problème, l'analyse porte sur les décomptes de décès par Covid-19 provenant de la base de données « La démographie des décès par Cov…
International Network on Health Expectancies and the Disablement Process (Reves)
Women’s excess unhealthy life years
BACKGROUND: Compared to men, women live longer but have more years with disability. We assessed the contribution of gender differences in mortality and disability, total and by cause, to women's excess unhealthy life years (ULYs). METHODS: We used mortality data for France 2008 from Eurostat, causes of death from the CépiDc-INSERM-database; and disability and chronic conditions data from the French Disability Health Survey 2008-09. ULYs were calc…
Gender Differences in Disability and Economic Hardship in Older Europeans
Contribution of chronic conditions to smoking differences in life expectancy with and without disability in Belgium
Background: Smoking is the leading cause of premature mortality and morbidity. This study aimed at assessing the impact of smoking on life expectancy (LE) and LE with (LED) and without disability (DFLE). We further estimated the contribution of disability and mortality and their causes to differences in LED and DFLE by smoking. Methods: Data on disability, chronic conditions, and smoking from 17 148 participants of the 1997, 2001, 2004 Belgian He…
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
Background: We aimed to investigate the contribution of chronic conditions to gender differences in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and life expectancy with disability (LED) in Belgium in 2001, 2004 and 2008. Methods: Data on disability and chronic conditions from participants of the 2001, 2004 and 2008 Health Interview Surveys in Belgium were used to estimate disability prevalence by cause using the attribution method. Disability prevalen…
L’allongement de l’espérance de vie en Europe
Depuis une trentaine d'années, face à l'allongement de l'espérance de vie, chercheurs et acteurs de santé publique s'interrogent sur les répercussions attendues sur la santé : gagne-t-on des années de bonne santé ou vit-on plus longtemps avec des maladies ? Ces interrogations découlent d'une augmentation de la survie aux grands âges, plus exposés aux problèmes de santé, mais aussi de la plus grande survie avec certaines maladies et incapacités do…
International Perspectives on Summary Measures of Population Health in an Aging World
Evaluation of an Early-Warning System for Heat Wave-Related Mortality in Europe
Heat waves have been responsible for more fatalities in Europe over the past decades than any other extreme weather event. However, temperature-related illnesses and deaths are largely preventable. Reliable sub-seasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) climate forecasts of extreme temperatures could allow for better short-to-medium-term resource management within heat-health action plans, to protect vulnerable populations and ensure access to preventive measure…
Impact of Question Wording on the Measurement of Activity Limitation
Our study suggests limited benefits of changing the GALI construct which do not outweigh the costs of breaking the established chronological series of the current variant
Economic Hardship and Educational Differentials in Disability in 26 European Countries
Associations between poverty, education, and disability are complex. In general, large EH goes along with increased disability differentials. Actions to reduce poverty are needed in Europe to reduce the levels and differentials in disability
Harmonising summary measures of population health using global survey instruments
measures of population health—health expectancies in particular—have become a standard for quantifying and monitoring population health. To date, cross-national comparability of health expectancies is limited, except within the European Union (EU). To advance international comparability, the European Joint Action on Healthy Life Years (JA: EHLEIS) set up an international working group. The working group discussed the conceptual basis of summary m…
Educational differentials in disability vary across and within welfare regimes
BACKGROUND: Social differentials in disability prevalence exist in all European countries, but their scale varies markedly. To improve understanding of this variation, the article focuses on each end of the social gradient. It compares the extent of the higher disability prevalence in low social groups (referred to as disability disadvantage) and of the lower prevalence in high social groups (disability advantage); country-specific advantages/dis…
Comparison of socio-economic indicators explaining inequalities in Healthy Life Years at age 50 in Europe
BACKGROUND: The first estimates of Healthy Life Years at age 50 (HLY50) across the EU25 countries in 2005 showed substantial variation in healthy ageing. We investigate whether factors contributing to HLY50 inequalities have changed between 2005 and 2010. METHODS: HLY50 for each country and year were calculated using Sullivan's method, applying the age-specific prevalence of activity limitation from the European Union Statistics on Income and Liv…
Evaluating the Performance of a Climate-Driven Mortality Model during Heat Waves and Cold Spells in Europe
The impact of climate change on human health is a serious concern. In particular, changes in the frequency and intensity of heat waves and cold spells are of high relevance in terms of mortality and morbidity. This demonstrates the urgent need for reliable early-warning systems to help authorities prepare and respond to emergency situations. In this study, we evaluate the performance of a climate-driven mortality model to provide probabilistic pr…
Contribution of chronic diseases to the disability burden in a population 15 years and older, Belgium, 1997–2008
To reduce the burden of disability in Belgium, interventions should target musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases especially among elderly. Furthermore, attention should also be given to depression in young individuals
Modal age at death
This paper examines and demonstrates the importance of the adult modal age at death (M) in longevity research. Unlike life expectancy at birth (e0) and median age at death, M is determined solely by old-age mortality as far as mortality follows a bathtub curve. It represents the location of old-age death heap in the age distribution of deaths, and captures mortality shifts more accurately than conditional life expectancies such as e65. Although M…
The effect of smoking on the duration of life with and without disability, Belgium 1997–2011
Smoking kills and shortens both life without and life with disability. Smoking related disability can however not be ignored, given its contribution to the excess years with disability especially in younger age groups
Ageing in the European Union
Three dimensions of the survival curve
Three dimensions of the survival curve have been developed: (1) “horizontalization,” which corresponds to how long a cohort and how many survivors can live before aging-related deaths significantly decrease the proportion of survivors; (2) “verticalization,” which corresponds to how concentrated aging-related (“normal”) deaths are around the modal age at death (M); and (3) “longevity extension,” which corresponds to how far the highest normal lif…
How good is Sullivan's method for monitoring changes in population health expectancies
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare health expectancies calculated by Sullivan's method and the multistate life table method in order to identify the magnitude of the bias in Sullivan's method and assess how seriously this limits its use for monitoring population health expectancies. DESIGN: A simulation model was used to compare health expectancies calculated using Sullivan's method and the multistate life table method under various scenarios for the ev…
Increase in common longevity and the compression of mortality
This study shows a strong increase in the modal age at death (M) in Japan over a period of 50 calendar years, accompanied by a clear decrease in the standard deviation of ages at death above M (SD(M+)) until the 1990s for men and the mid-1980s for women. For the most recent periods SD(M+) appears to have stopped decreasing, even though M has continued to increase linearly. This stagnation in SD(M+) has been accompanied by stagnation in q(M). The …
Redefining the Stages of the Epidemiological Transition by a Study of the Dispersion of Life Spans
Robin? Jean-Marie.- Redefining Stages of Epidemiological Transition by a Study of Dispersion of Life Spans: The Case of France Of very few theories about evolving health status of populations, one of best known is that of epidemiological transition. Formulated by Omran in 1971, it describes changes in cause-of-death pattern associated with reduction in mortality rates during demographic transition. Omran argued that second stage, the of Receding …
The compression of deaths above the mode
Kannisto (2001) has shown that as the frequency distribution of ages at death has shifted to the right, the age distribution of deaths above the modal age has become more compressed. In order to further investigate this old-age mortality compression, we adopt the simple logistic model with two parameters, which is known to fit data on old-age mortality well (Thatcher 1999). Based on the model, we show that three key measures of old-age mortality …
Social inequalities in disability-free life expectancy in the french male population, 1980–1991
We calculate aggregate indicators of population health for occupational groups to gauge changes in health disparities during the 1980–1991 period. The study is based on the experiences of French adult men in three major occupational classes: managers, manual workers, and an intermediary occupational group. Life table models show that managers have longer life expectancy and dis-abilityfree life expectancy (DFLE) than manual workers, and a shorter…
Examination of the Causes and Mechanisms of the Increase in Disability-Free Life Expectancy
From 1981 to 1991, life expectancy at birth in France increased by 2.5 years. Health survey data show that during this 10-year period, disability-free life expectancy increased significantly by 3.0 years in males and 2.6 years in females. Consequently, the proportion of years lived without disability within life expectancy has increased. For example, in males it increased from 86.4% to 87.5% in this time period. These observations show that, cont…
L'espérance de vie sans incapacité en France en 1982
Colvez A., Robine Jean-Marie. L'espérance de vie sans incapacité en France en 1982. In: Population, 41e année, n°6, 1986. pp. 1025-1042
Dissecting the compression of mortality in Switzerland, 1876-2005
This paper aims to examine changes in common longevity and variability of the adult life span, and attempts to answer whether or not the compression of mortality continues in Switzerland in the years 1876-2005. The results show that the negative relati
Inequalities in health expectancies at older ages in the European Union
BACKGROUND: Life expectancy gaps between Eastern and Western Europe are well reported with even larger variations in healthy life years (HLY). AIMS: To compare European countries with respect to a wide range of health expectancies based on more specific measures that cover the disablement process in order to better understand previous inequalities. METHODS: Health expectancies at age 50 by gender and country using Sullivan's method were calculate…
Occupational inequalities in health expectancies in France in the early 2000s
Increasing life expectancy (LE) raises expectations for social participation at later ages. We computed health expectancies (HE) to assess the (un)equal chances of social/work participation after age 50 in the context of France in 2003. We considered f
Economic Hardship and Educational Differentials in Disability in 26 European Countries
Associations between poverty, education, and disability are complex. In general, large EH goes along with increased disability differentials. Actions to reduce poverty are needed in Europe to reduce the levels and differentials in disability
Educational differentials in disability vary across and within welfare regimes
BACKGROUND: Social differentials in disability prevalence exist in all European countries, but their scale varies markedly. To improve understanding of this variation, the article focuses on each end of the social gradient. It compares the extent of the higher disability prevalence in low social groups (referred to as disability disadvantage) and of the lower prevalence in high social groups (disability advantage); country-specific advantages/dis…
Nonagenarians and centenarians in Switzerland, 1860–2001
Study objective: To explore the rapid rise of the extremely old population, showing the magnitude of the increase and indentifying demographic mechanisms underlying this increase. Design: Demographic analysis using census data, yearly population estimates, and mortality statistics. Setting: Switzerland 1860–2001. Main results: Indicators suggest a strong increase in the number of nonagenarians and centenarians in Switzerland as compared with othe…
Différences de mortalité par Covid-19
L'urgence que représente la compréhension de la pandémie de Covid-19 a entraîné des différences considérables entre les procédures de collecte des données des pays concernés, qui s'efforcent tous de produire des informations en temps réel mais qui restent des statistiques de mortalité imparfaites. Pour remédier à ce problème, l'analyse porte sur les décomptes de décès par Covid-19 provenant de la base de données « La démographie des décès par Cov…
Distinguishing health expectancies and health-adjusted life expectancies from quality-adjusted life years
Distinguishing health expectancies and health-adjusted life expectancies from quality-adjusted life years. J M Robine, C D Mathers, and D BucquetCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.83.6.797 Published Online: October 07, 2011
L’allongement de l’espérance de vie en Europe
Depuis une trentaine d'années, face à l'allongement de l'espérance de vie, chercheurs et acteurs de santé publique s'interrogent sur les répercussions attendues sur la santé : gagne-t-on des années de bonne santé ou vit-on plus longtemps avec des maladies ? Ces interrogations découlent d'une augmentation de la survie aux grands âges, plus exposés aux problèmes de santé, mais aussi de la plus grande survie avec certaines maladies et incapacités do…
La durée de vie la plus commune des adultes au XVIII e siècle
Au cours des dix dernières années, l'âge modal au décès a pris une place prépondérante au sein des études sur la longévité humaine, notamment parce qu'il renseigne sur la durée de vie la plus commune des adultes, sans être influencé par les conditions de mortalité aux jeunes âges. On connait peu le niveau et l'évolution de l'âge modal au décès des adultes dans les populations du passé. Le Registre de la population du Québec ancien constitue une s…
Redefinir les phases de la transition epidemiologique a travers l'etude de la dispersion des durees de vie
Robine Jean-Marie. Redéfinir les phases de la transition épidémiologique à travers l'étude de la dispersion des durées de vie. Le cas de la France. In: Population, 56e année, n°1-2, 2001. Perspectives biodémographiques de la longévité humaine, sous la direction de Jean-Marie Robine. pp. 199-221
Dementia-free life expectancy in France
OBJECTIVES. Increasing concern with the quality of gains in life years has led to the development of a new synthetic indicator of population health:health expectancy. Until now, calculations have been made for physical disabilities only. A first estimate of mental health expectancy is presented: dementia-free life expectancy. METHODS. Sullivan's method was used to calculate dementia-free life expectancy for a random representative sample of 4134 …
Nouvelles observations sur la longévité humaine
Avec la chute de la mortalité des adultes, la distribution des âges au décès s’est déplacée vers des âges plus élevés. Ce faisant, les âges au décès se sont compressés autour de la valeur modale illustrant le scénario de la compression de la mortalité qui avait été proposé par James Fries en 1980. Toutefois, cette homogénéisation des durées de vie adultes n’a pas pu empêcher l’explosion des effectifs des personnes très âgées, nonagénaires ou cent…
Gender Differences in Disability and Economic Hardship in Older Europeans
Impact of Question Wording on the Measurement of Activity Limitation
Our study suggests limited benefits of changing the GALI construct which do not outweigh the costs of breaking the established chronological series of the current variant
Differentials in the femininity ratio among centenarians
Significant differentials have been observed between Italian regions in the distribution of centenarians by sex, from two women per man in the south to over eight in certain regions in the north. In order to explain these differentials we studied the evolution of the femininity ratio (FR), using a longitudinal approach to follow the ageing process in two cohorts, and making use of nearly all the statistical data available since the time of the Un…
Health expectancy
matter, not those which remain stable.Van de Water et al contend that the problems with the Sullivan method and trend analysis have been well known for a long time
Espérance de vie sans incapacité et ses composantes
Robine Jean-Marie, Colvez A. Espérance de vie sans incapacité et ses composantes : de nouveaux indicateurs pour mesurer la santé et les besoins de la population. In: Population, 39e année, n°1, 1984. pp. 27-45
L'espérance de vie sans incapacité en France en 1982
Colvez A., Robine Jean-Marie. L'espérance de vie sans incapacité en France en 1982. In: Population, 41e année, n°6, 1986. pp. 1025-1042
Distinguishing health expectancies and health-adjusted life expectancies from quality-adjusted life years
Distinguishing health expectancies and health-adjusted life expectancies from quality-adjusted life years. J M Robine, C D Mathers, and D BucquetCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.83.6.797 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Dementia-free life expectancy in France
OBJECTIVES. Increasing concern with the quality of gains in life years has led to the development of a new synthetic indicator of population health:health expectancy. Until now, calculations have been made for physical disabilities only. A first estimate of mental health expectancy is presented: dementia-free life expectancy. METHODS. Sullivan's method was used to calculate dementia-free life expectancy for a random representative sample of 4134 …
The Term “Years of Healthy Life”
The Term "Years of Healthy Life": Misunderstood, Defended, and Challenged 4. Robine and Mathers Respond: Regrettable Inconsistencies Jean-Marie Robine, and Colin D. Mathers CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.5.866-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Health expectancy
matter, not those which remain stable.Van de Water et al contend that the problems with the Sullivan method and trend analysis have been well known for a long time
L'évolution de l'espérance de vie sans incapacité à 65 ans
quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Évolution des courbes de survie totale, sans maladie chronique et sans incapacité en France de 1981 à 1991
In 1984, World Health Organisation (WHO) has proposed a demo-epidemiological model which allows the assessment of the possible consequences of the lengthening of life on the level of health. This model is represented in a graphic form by three curves : the observed survival curve, the hypothetical survival curve without chronic diseases and the hypothetical survival curve without disability ; thus, as life expectancy at any age is calculated from…
How good is Sullivan's method for monitoring changes in population health expectancies
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare health expectancies calculated by Sullivan's method and the multistate life table method in order to identify the magnitude of the bias in Sullivan's method and assess how seriously this limits its use for monitoring population health expectancies. DESIGN: A simulation model was used to compare health expectancies calculated using Sullivan's method and the multistate life table method under various scenarios for the ev…
Examination of the Causes and Mechanisms of the Increase in Disability-Free Life Expectancy
From 1981 to 1991, life expectancy at birth in France increased by 2.5 years. Health survey data show that during this 10-year period, disability-free life expectancy increased significantly by 3.0 years in males and 2.6 years in females. Consequently, the proportion of years lived without disability within life expectancy has increased. For example, in males it increased from 86.4% to 87.5% in this time period. These observations show that, cont…
Les espérances de vie appliquées à des statuts spécifiques. Historique des indicateurs et des méthodes de calcul
Cambois Emmanuelle, Robine Jean-Marie, Brouard Nicolas. Les espérances de vie appliquées à des statuts spécifiques : historique des indicateurs et des méthodes de calcul. In: Population, 53e année, n°3, 1998. pp. 447-476
Les espérances de vie appliquées à des statuts spécifiques
Cambois (Emmanuelle), Robin? (Jean-Marie), Brouard (Nicolas).- Les espérances de vie appliquées à des statuts spécifiques : historique des indicateurs et des méthodes de calcul Les indicateurs d'espérance de vie appliquée à des statuts spécifiques, tels que l'état de santé ou le statut professionnel, sont apparus dès la fin des années trente et connaissent un regain d'intérêt. Parce qu'elles associent la mortalité à des domaines divers (santé, ac…
Life Expectancies Applied to Specific Statuses
Cambois (Emmanuelle), Robin? (Jean-Marie), Brouard (Nicolas).- Les espérances de vie appliquées à des statuts spécifiques : historique des indicateurs et des méthodes de calcul Les indicateurs d'espérance de vie appliquée à des statuts spécifiques, tels que l'état de santé ou le statut professionnel, sont apparus dès la fin des années trente et connaissent un regain d'intérêt. Parce qu'elles associent la mortalité à des domaines divers (santé, ac…
Freedom and quality of life
There is a double belief that causes health authorities to hold back from vigorously promoting healthy behaviours. The first is linked to the idea that there is a trade off between the quantity and the quality of life. Why increase the individual length of life if it is at the price of the quality of the years lived. But what do we mean by the quality of the years lived? Happiness or well being? This approach is considered too wide by the importa…
Social Inequalities in Disability-Free Life Expectancy in the French Male Population, 1980-1991
We calculate aggregate indicators of population health for occupational groups to gauge changes in health disparities during the 1980–1991 period. The study is based on the experiences of French adult men in three major occupational classes: managers, manual workers, and an intermediary occupational group. Life table models show that managers have longer life expectancy and dis-abilityfree life expectancy (DFLE) than manual workers, and a shorter…
Social inequalities in disability-free life expectancy in the french male population, 1980–1991
We calculate aggregate indicators of population health for occupational groups to gauge changes in health disparities during the 1980–1991 period. The study is based on the experiences of French adult men in three major occupational classes: managers, manual workers, and an intermediary occupational group. Life table models show that managers have longer life expectancy and dis-abilityfree life expectancy (DFLE) than manual workers, and a shorter…
Redefining the Stages of the Epidemiological Transition by a Study of the Dispersion of Life Spans
Robin? Jean-Marie.- Redefining Stages of Epidemiological Transition by a Study of Dispersion of Life Spans: The Case of France Of very few theories about evolving health status of populations, one of best known is that of epidemiological transition. Formulated by Omran in 1971, it describes changes in cause-of-death pattern associated with reduction in mortality rates during demographic transition. Omran argued that second stage, the of Receding …
Redefinir les phases de la transition epidemiologique a travers l'etude de la dispersion des durees de vie
Robine Jean-Marie. Redéfinir les phases de la transition épidémiologique à travers l'étude de la dispersion des durées de vie. Le cas de la France. In: Population, 56e année, n°1-2, 2001. Perspectives biodémographiques de la longévité humaine, sous la direction de Jean-Marie Robine. pp. 199-221
Redéfinir les phases de la transition épidémiologique à travers l'étude de la dispersion des durées de vie. Le cas de la France
Robin? Jean Marie - Redéfinir les phases de la transition epidemiologique à travers l'étude de la dispersion des durées de vie : le cas de la France II y a très peu de théories sur l'évolution de l'état de santé des populations Une des plus connues est la théorie de la transition epidemiologique qui a ete développée par Omran en 1971 pour décrire les changements dans la structure des causes de deces qui accompagnent la chute des taux de mortalité…
European Perspectives on Healthy Aging in Women
Using data from the 1994 European Community Household Panel, we compare active life expectancy differentials at age 65 years between women and men in 12 European countries. We seek to explain the extent to which differences are a reflection of gender differentials in life expectancy at 65 years or reflect differences in active life expectancy earlier in life. Considerable variation in the gender differentials in both total and active life expecta…
Nonagenarians and centenarians in Switzerland, 1860–2001
Study objective: To explore the rapid rise of the extremely old population, showing the magnitude of the increase and indentifying demographic mechanisms underlying this increase. Design: Demographic analysis using census data, yearly population estimates, and mortality statistics. Setting: Switzerland 1860–2001. Main results: Indicators suggest a strong increase in the number of nonagenarians and centenarians in Switzerland as compared with othe…
Three dimensions of the survival curve
Three dimensions of the survival curve have been developed: (1) “horizontalization,” which corresponds to how long a cohort and how many survivors can live before aging-related deaths significantly decrease the proportion of survivors; (2) “verticalization,” which corresponds to how concentrated aging-related (“normal”) deaths are around the modal age at death (M); and (3) “longevity extension,” which corresponds to how far the highest normal lif…
Differentials in the femininity ratio among centenarians
Significant differentials have been observed between Italian regions in the distribution of centenarians by sex, from two women per man in the south to over eight in certain regions in the north. In order to explain these differentials we studied the evolution of the femininity ratio (FR), using a longitudinal approach to follow the ageing process in two cohorts, and making use of nearly all the statistical data available since the time of the Un…
Death toll exceeded 70,000 in Europe during the summer of 2003
Daily numbers of deaths at a regional level were collected in 16 European countries. Summer mortality was analyzed for the reference period 1998–2002 and for 2003. More than 70,000 additional deaths occurred in Europe during the summer 2003. Major distortions occurred in the age distribution of the deaths, but no harvesting effect was observed in the months following August 2003. Global warming constitutes a new health threat in an aged Europe th…
Did the Prevalence of Disability in France Really Fall Sharply in the 1990s
L’enquête Santé française posait en 2002-2003, pour la troisième fois depuis 1980, une question générale sur les « gênes ou handicaps dans la vie quotidienne ». Les réponses obtenues suggèrent une décroissance beaucoup plus rapide qu’auparavant des prévalences de l’incapacité au cours de la dernière décennie, dont l’ampleur dépasse les scénarii les plus optimistes. Ce travail examine plus particulièrement les changements intervenus dans le protoc…
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