Measuring (over-)mortality in the context of health crises: what lessons can be drawn from the covid-19 pandemic?

Our populations are experiencing recurring health crises, often severely affecting the elderly, and causing life expectancy to fluctuate. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic gave a universal and multiplied vision of these shocks. It put health information systems to the test. On a daily basis, deaths from COVID became a common thread. But behind these figures, the challenges of data collection are multiple: delays in the exhaustive reporting of bulletins and death certificates, coverage of places of death, criteria for identifying deaths due to Covid-19.

These rapidly available figures meet surveillance and alert objectives; objectives that do not systematically intersect with phenomenon analysis objectives. Surveillance and warning missions require rapid data feedback and sensitive observation points. Analysis missions require representative data collection to apprehend the diversity of situations, identify risks and underlying factors, understand variations... How can these missions be reconciled?

This scientific meeting organized by the Mortality, Health, Epidemiology unit of the Institut national d'études démographiques (MSE-Ined) and the Institut de la longévité des vieillesses et du vieillissement (ILVV) aims to cross-experience data from routine, surveillance or ad hoc sources and their limitations. The aim is to explore the complementarity and potential for mutual enrichment of data collection systems.

This seminar will take place in two parts:

• The first part will be devoted to the presentation of: (1) sources of statistical data on mortality during the COVID crisis in France, then; (2) work carried out by both parties on the assessment of excess mortality and the disparities observed (territorial, social); (3) experiences in other contexts, particularly from an international comparative perspective.
• The second part will be devoted to sharing the lessons learned from these presentations, as part of a round-table discussion bringing together the organizations responsible for the various data collection schemes in France.

Information and registration:
https://www.ilvv.fr/fr/mission-4-dialoguer/seminaires-dialogue/vieillis...