Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018
Within the first seven weeks of 2018, some 93 990 people died in England and Wales. Over the same weeks in the previous five years, an average of 83 615 people died. This rise of 12.4%, or 10 375 additional deaths, was not due to the ageing of the population. Ageing is a slow process and leads to sl...
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| description | Within the first seven weeks of 2018, some 93 990 people died in England and Wales. Over the same weeks in the previous five years, an average of 83 615 people died. This rise of 12.4%, or 10 375 additional deaths, was not due to the ageing of the population. Ageing is a slow process and leads to slow, not sudden, rises in mortality. An additional person died every seven minutes during the first 49 days of 2018 compared with what had been usual in the previous five years. Why? |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:903a3ffc-a394-44e8-92e5-d8c180ed56fe2022-03-26T23:10:13ZRise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:903a3ffc-a394-44e8-92e5-d8c180ed56feSymplectic Elements at OxfordBMJ Publishing Group2018Hiam, LDorling, DWithin the first seven weeks of 2018, some 93 990 people died in England and Wales. Over the same weeks in the previous five years, an average of 83 615 people died. This rise of 12.4%, or 10 375 additional deaths, was not due to the ageing of the population. Ageing is a slow process and leads to slow, not sudden, rises in mortality. An additional person died every seven minutes during the first 49 days of 2018 compared with what had been usual in the previous five years. Why? |
| spellingShingle | Hiam, L Dorling, D Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018 |
| title | Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018 |
| title_full | Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018 |
| title_fullStr | Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018 |
| title_short | Rise in mortality in England and Wales in first seven weeks of 2018 |
| title_sort | rise in mortality in england and wales in first seven weeks of 2018 |
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