France Meslé

Senior Researcher
mesle@ined.fr 33(0) 1 56 06 21 43 33(0) 1 56 06 21 94
Secretariat : Evgeniya Samoshnikova +33 (0)1 56 06 20 24

Research field(s)

Mortality in the world, levels and trends.
The health transition.
Causes of death and their changes over long periods.
Mortality and morbidity due to cancer.
The health crisis in Eastern Europe and the former USSR.

Some publications

Grippo Francesco, Désesquelles Aline, Pappagallo Marilena, Frova Luisa, Egidi Viviana, Meslé France, 2020, « Multi-morbidity and frailty at death: A new classification of death records for an ageing world », Population Studies , 74(3), p. 1-13.

Ouellette Nadine, Meslé France, Vallin Jacques, Robine Jean-Marie, 2020, « Supercentenarians and Semi-supercentenarians in France », in Maier Heiner, Jeune Bernard, et al. Exceptional Lifespans , Cham, Suisse, Springer International Publishing (coll. Demographic Research Monographs (A Series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)), p. 105-123.

Caporali Arianna, Garcia Jenny, Couppie Etienne, Poniakina Svitlana, Barbieri Magali, Bonnet Florian, Camarda Carlo Giovanni, Cambois Emmanuelle, Hourani Iris, Korotkova Daria, et al., 2022, « The demography of COVID-19 deaths database, a gateway to well-documented international data », Population , 9(93), p. 1-9.

Meslé France, Vallin Jacques. 2012. Mortality and causes of death in 20th century Ukraine. Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York, Springer, 279 p. (Demographic Research Monograph).

Meslé France, Vallin Jacques. 2011. Historical trends in mortality. In: Rogers Richard G., Crimmins Eileen M. (ed.), International Handbook of Adult Mortality . Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York, Springer, p. 9-47.

Meslé France, Vallin Jacques, 2006. Diverging trends in female old-age mortality: the United States and the Netherlands versus France and Japan, Population and Development Review, vol. 32, n° 1, p. 123-145.

Meslé France. 2006. Medical Causes of Death. In: Caselli Graziella, Vallin Jacques, Wunsch Guillaume (eds.), Demography: Analysis and synthesis. A Treatise in Population Studies. New York, Academic Press, vol. II, p. 29-44.