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
Covid-HOSP

Covid-HOSP

The COVID-19 epidemic deeply disrupted the French health system in what was already a difficult context.

The broad objective of this project is to assess the direct and indirect effects of the epidemic (and/or lockdown) on the health of the French population using French National Health Data System (SNDS) data.

Patient cohorts with chronic pathologies that can be readily identified in the SNDS (e.g., solid tumor cancer, AIDS, sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, kidney failure requiring dialysis, diabetes, psychiatric disorders) will be drawn up: For each cohort the following information will be determined:

levels of treatment use and consumption, morbidity, and mortality (before, during and after France’s first lockdown period, March 17-May 11, 2020);
frequency of serious COVID-19 infections: admission to ICU, in-hospital mortality, mortality up to 60 days beyond hospital admission;
population heterogeneity in connection with mortality-associated factors: sex, age, comorbidities, social categories (determined using INSEE’s index of social deprivation), type of residence (institution versus ordinary household), type of employment, place of birth, and geographic zone in France.

Funders: le Ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé, dans le cadre du Programme de Recherche sur la Performance du Système de soins (PREPS)

Project partners:

hospital complex of Annecy-Genevois (Tristan Delory);
INED (Sophie Le Coeur, Myriam Khlat, Gil Bellis, Émilie Counil, INED Statistical Methods Service);
INSERM Mixed Research/Service Unit 1136 (Nathanaël Lapidus, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Gilles Hejblum).

Online :June 2021