Dynamique récente de la mortalité dans les pays où l'espérance de vie est élevée : nouveaux profils et défis à venir

Les Lundis de l'Ined

23/06/2025

l’Ined de 11h30 à 12h30, en présentiel en salle Sauvy & en visioconférence via ZOOM

Intervenant : José-Manuel Aburto (professeur associé de démographie à the London school of hygiene & tropical medicine)

Life expectancy is a widely used indicator of population health and was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries. Recent analysis of causes of death (e.g. cardiovascular diseases, cancers, suicides) and their contributions to life-expectancy changes uncovered the indirect pathways through which the pandemic has affected mortality and population health. In this seminar I will present up-to-date mortality trends and address three questions: (1) Has life expectancy recovered fully to pre-pandemic levels? (2) Has it reached the levels expected had the pandemic not happened? (3) Have cause-of-death profiles been reshaped in post pandemic years ?

Biographie de José-Manuel Aburto :

Dr. Aburto joined LSHTM in 2022 as Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography. The overarching aim of José Manuel's research is to produce novel insights on population health inequalities and better understand their link with social determinants of health. Theoretically and methodologically, his work follows two main strands. First, his work develops and advances formal demographic techniques to measure inequalities in the length of life and uses this perspective to generate new ways of analysing population health. Second, through these and other methodological tools, including those from statistics, data science, and computer science, his work examines the structural and social determinants of population health inequalities.