Faire progresser la recherche sur la longévité dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire : L’accent mis sur les personnes âgées [ENG]
Faire progresser la recherche sur la longévité dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire : L’accent mis sur les personnes âgées
Intervenante : Marília Nepomuceno (chercheuse & responsable formation à Max Planck Institute, Lab. of Populations Dynamics & Sustainable Well-Being & Lab. of Demographic Data) ; discutante : Géraldine Duthé (directrice adjointe à la recherche de l’Ined)
In this talk, I will discuss how to advance research on later-life mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While data quality and availability are a major challenge, the extent of these data limitations varies widely across LMICs, calling for context-specific research strategies to advance later-life mortality research. For instance, in some Latin American countries, where several data limitations have already been addressed, we can explore hypotheses, such as those that considers the life-course approach, that explain later-life mortality patterns beyond the initial assumption of “it’s just bad data”. In contrast, in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, we should develop innovative approaches to address less-studied data issues, such as age exaggeration. By tailoring research approaches to specific contexts, we can gain more nuanced insights into mortality at older ages.
Biographie de Marília Nepomuceno :
Marília Nepomuceno is a research scientist and PhD training chair at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Her research focuses on advancing demographic methods, and mortality and health in later life, addressing multiple dimensions of demographic analysis, including age, gender, education, and spatial dimensions. Marília’s research also includes data quality in low- and middle-income countries, the centenarian population, lifespan inequalities, mortality shocks, and seasonal mortality.