Excess Mortality as a Tool to Monitor the Evolution of Health Emergencies: Choices, Challenges, and Future Directions

Excess mortality has become one of the most popular metrics to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. Excess mortality has three key advantages relative to alternatives: (1 ) it requires relatively little data (in the most basic form, a historical time series of annual deaths),...

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Published in:	American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 114; no. 6; pp. 583 - 586
Main Authors:	Paglino, Eugenio, Stokes, Andrew C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Public Health Association 01.06.2024
Subjects:	Age Certificates Coronaviruses COVID-19 COVID-19 - epidemiology COVID-19 - mortality Death Death & dying Death certificates Deaths Disease transmission Emergencies Emergency medical care Estimates Health behavior Humans Mortality Mortality - trends Pandemics Public health Time series Trends United States > US
ISSN:	0090-0036, 1541-0048, 1541-0048
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