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In two previous blogs (here and here) I looked at excess winter mortality. A first glance at the charts shows that the elderly dominate the death counts. However, the elderly also happen to provide the bulk of deaths at any time of year, so how can we be sure that they are more vulnerable to seasonal variation?
Mortality down under
Different countries have different mortality characteristics, and this is true even where countries have similar levels of wealth and development. However, different countries also have shared mortality characteristics, and one of these is seasonal variation.
A chill wind
In a previous blogs I have looked at seasonal fluctuations in mortality, usually with lower mortality in summer and higher mortality in winter. The subject of excess winter deaths is back in the news, as the UK experienced heavy mortality in the winter of 2014/15, as demonstrated in Figure 1.
Winter mortality
In previous posts we looked at seasonal fluctuations in mortality. Since the UK is about to experience some particularly cold weather again, we will look at winter mortality in more detail.