Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries

V Kontis, JE Bennett, T Rashid, RM Parks… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed many social,
economic, environmental and healthcare determinants of health. We applied an ensemble …

Estimating global and country-specific excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic

V Knutson, S Aleshin-Guendel… - The Annals of Applied …, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
Estimating global and country-specific excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic Page
1 The Annals of Applied Statistics 2023, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1353–1374 https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AOAS1673 …

The challenge of estimating the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 interventions–Toward an integrated economic and epidemiological approach

F Dorn, B Lange, M Braml, D Gstrein… - Economics & Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Decisions on public health measures to contain a pandemic are often based on parameters
such as expected disease burden and additional mortality due to the pandemic. Both …

Association of tropical cyclones with county-level mortality in the US

RM Parks, J Benavides, GB Anderson, RC Nethery… - JAMA, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Tropical cyclones have a devastating effect on society, but a comprehensive
assessment of their association with cause-specific mortality over multiple years of study is …

Short-term excess mortality following tropical cyclones in the United States

RM Parks, V Kontis, GB Anderson, JW Baldwin… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Knowledge of excess deaths after tropical cyclones is critical to understanding their impacts,
directly relevant to policies on preparedness and mitigation. We applied an ensemble of 16 …

Anomalously warm temperatures are associated with increased injury deaths

RM Parks, JE Bennett, H Tamura-Wicks, V Kontis… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Temperatures that deviate from the long-term local norm affect human health, and are
projected to become more frequent as the global climate changes. There are limited data on …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons learned and lessons missed: impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on all-cause mortality in 40 industrialised countries and …

V Kontis, JE Bennett, RM Parks, T Rashid… - Wellcome open …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Industrialised countries had varied responses to the COVID-19 pandemic,
which may lead to different death tolls from COVID-19 and other diseases. Methods: We …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding temperature related health risk in context of urban land use changes

V Avashia, A Garg, H Dholakia - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021 - Elsevier
A city's climate is affected both by global warming and the local factors such as built form
and the landscape. The temperature related impacts of climate change make urban areas …

Excess injury mortality in Washington State during the 2021 heat wave

JA Casey, RM Parks, TA Bruckner… - … journal of public …, 2023 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To determine whether the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave resulted in excess
injury (both unintentional and intentional) deaths. Methods. With US death certificate data …

A large decrease in the magnitude of seasonal fluctuations in mortality among elderly explains part of the increase in longevity in Sweden during 20th century

A Ledberg - BMC Public Health, 2020 - Springer
Background Mortality rates are known to depend on the seasons and, in temperate climates,
rates are highest during winter. The magnitude of these seasonal fluctuations in mortality …