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Winter excess mortality
— a comparison between Norway and England plus Wales | | Author(s) | Knut Laake, Jan Marcus Sverre |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 25, no 5, September 1996 |
| Pages | pp 343-348 |
| Keywords | Death rate [statistics] ; Influenza ; Weather conditions ; Comparison ; Norway ; England ; Wales ; Western Europe. |
| Annotation | Using data from Norway and England plus Wales, this study compares the effect of age, temperature and excess mortality in the two countries. Excess winter mortality in England and Wales was nearly twice as high in old as in middle-aged people, and also markedly higher than in Norway, while the association between excess winter deaths and influenza was of a similar magnitude. In the British data, there was a marked relationship between outdoor temperature and excess winter mortality, corresponding to an increase of some 3500 deaths per 1 degree reduction in winter temperature, after adjusting for age and influenza. Using data from 20 Western European countries, a highly significant positive correlation was found between total mortality rates for the elderly (65 years and over) and relative excess winter mortality. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970326002 A |
| Classmark | S5: CJM: R4: 48: 76N: 82: 9: 76 |
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