Meslé France. ? Cancer and Food. The Case of Cancer of the Intestine and Cancer of the Rectum. Cancers of the intestine and the rectum are the second most important cause of death from malignant tumours in France. The development of mortality of cancer of the colon since 1950 has been...

M es lé France and Vallin Jacques. - Reconstitution of Annual Mortality Tables in 19th Century France. Since the 1950's, as a result of work by Jean Bourgeois-Pichat. a series of triennial abridged tables of mortality centered on census years has become available. General trends are, therefore...

Jusque dans les années 1970, une épidémie de grippe faisait directement de 10 000 à 20 000 morts, auxquelles il faut ajouter les décès dus aux complications de la maladie. La mise au point d'un vaccin efficace, constamment remanié en fonction des mutations du virus, a permis de diviser la...

Dans un article paru en 2002 dans la revue Science, James Oeppen et James Vaupel, observant que les records d'espérance de vie avaient progressé linéairement depuis 1841 au rythme constant de 3 mois par an, en concluaient qu'il y avait toute raison de croire que cela continuerait encore...

Up until the 1970s, flu epidemics commonly caused 10,000 to 20,000 direct deaths each year in France, not counting those who died from complications of the disease. The development of an effective vaccine, regularly reformulated in response to new viral mutations, has brought a ten-fold...

In an article published in Science in 2002, James Oeppen and James Vaupel, observing a constant linear progression (at arate of 3 months per year) in maximum life expectancies since 1841, concluded that the trend was set to continue for manyyears to come. A critical re-assessment of the data and...

In the past forty years, Madagascar?s GDP has shrunk more than 30%. The almost continuous deterioration in living conditions has been marked by extremely severe economic crises, most notably in the mid-1980s. Analysis of death registers in the capital, Antananarivo, provides a means to track...

Following implementation of the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) in 2000, it has become very difficult in France to reconstruct consistent cause-of-death time series based on this most recent version of the ICD. Not only are changes both numerous and complex,...