Bringing cause-of-death analysis into demography: An interview with France Meslé (by France Meslé)

Background: Cause-of-death analysis is an important part of demographic research nowadays, but this has not always been the case. These analyses were introduced to the discipline in the 1980s, which eventually led to the development of the health transition framework. One of the pioneers of this work was France Meslé. Objective: We interviewed France Meslé to better understand the history of cause-of-death analysis and how the health transition framework was developed, what methodological challe