Covid-19: the contribution of demography

Research Projects
To answer a number of the many questions on the impact of the coronavirus on populations and societies in France and across the world, INED has brought together the entire range of its disciplines and resources. This involves coordinating and supporting a number of projects, including an internet platform dedicated to the daily tracking of deaths due to Covid-19, the conducting of new surveys, participation in several international research projects, and wide diffusion of scientific publications. INED began designing and running a number of major, innovative research projects of its own and jointly with other institutions as early as March 2020. The projects encompass all stages in the life cycles and investigate a variety of lockdown-related issues, including home schooling and children’s behavior, housing and living conditions, family solidarity, remote working, the quality and resilience of maternal and neonatal care services, and end-of-life and death in nursing homes.
Publication
The research projects on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have produced a considerable amount of scientific findings. INED has compiled a selection of articles to help you understand certain phenomena better; for example, the impact of the health crisis on life expectancy and excess mortality in France; its repercussions on the health of essential and low-wage workers; the worsening of social inequalities due to the pandemic by family origin and minority “invisibility,” particularly in the département of Seine-Saint-Denis immediately outside Paris; and ethno-racial inequality in the United States in connection with the pandemic.
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Research Projects
CoMoNH

CoMoNH - COvid19 MOrtality in Nursing Home

The Université Paris-Est Créteil together with INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale) formed the CoMoNH consortium (COvid19 MOrtality in Nursing Homes). The project’s main objectives were to estimate all causes of excess mortality among nursing home residents in France during the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic (March 1-May 31 2020) by age bracket, sex, and département and to assess the possible existence of a “harvesting” effect (short-term mortality displacement) in the following months.

The study drew on RESID-EHPAD data [EHPAD: Etablissement d’Hébergement pour Personnes Agées Dépendantes, the French term for nursing home], a database managed by the French health system with information on all nursing homes and former long-term care units. That database is directly linked to the national health data system (SNDS), enabling researchers to determine residents’ vital status. The CoMoNH team compared observed mortality between March 1 and May 31, 2020 with expected mortality (i.e., identical for each age bracket and sex to average mortality for the previous six years, 2014-2019). This enabled them to estimate the number of excess deaths (observed minus expected deaths) and standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) over the period as whole and per week (up to August 31, 2020), then by age bracket, sex, and département. The first findings will be diffused soon.

INED participantss: Jean-Marie-Robine and Roméo Fontaine

Other members:

Antoine Rachas - CNAM
Martine Thomas - CNAM
Laure Carcaillon Bentata - SPF
Marie Laurent & Florence Canouï-Poitrine : Univ Paris Est Créteil, APHP, Inserm
Gaetan Gavazzo : CHU de Grenoble et Université de Grenoble

Online :January 2022