2001
DOI: 10.1093/ije/30.5.1100
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Temperature, housing, deprivation and their relationship to excess winter mortality in Great Britain, 1986–1996

Abstract: Excess winter mortality continues to be an important public health problem in Great Britain. There was a strong inverse association with temperature. Lack of central heating was associated with higher excess winter mortality. Further work is needed to disentangle the complex relationships between different indicators of housing quality and other measures of socioeconomic deprivation and their relationship to the high number of excess winter deaths in Great Britain.

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“…This corroborates the findings for other countries such as Germany (Lerchl 1998), Japan (Honda 2000), Scotland (Gemmel et al 2000), and the United States (Seretakis 1997), where declines in mortality seasonality have been noted. A likely explanation for this is improvement in the nature of housing stock, the increased use and availability of home heating and improving health systems (Keatinge et al 1989, Lerchl 1997, Aylin et al 2001. As noted by Davis et al (2002) Table 6.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This corroborates the findings for other countries such as Germany (Lerchl 1998), Japan (Honda 2000), Scotland (Gemmel et al 2000), and the United States (Seretakis 1997), where declines in mortality seasonality have been noted. A likely explanation for this is improvement in the nature of housing stock, the increased use and availability of home heating and improving health systems (Keatinge et al 1989, Lerchl 1997, Aylin et al 2001. As noted by Davis et al (2002) Table 6.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In a cross-country analysis, strong relationships were found between EWM and relative income poverty, inequality, deprivation and fuel poverty [8]. In Great Britain from 1986 to 1996, there was little association between deprivation and EWM for all cause mortality although lack of central heating was associated with increased seasonal mortality [9].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Cold mortality is a problem in mid-latitudes (Keatinge et al, 2000;Nafstad et al, 2001;Mercer, 2003;Hassi, 2005) but is likely to decline with milder winters (Department of Health, 2002;Dessai, 2003). Major determinants of winter mortality include respiratory infections and poor quality housing (Aylin et al, 2001;Wilkinson et al, 2001Wilkinson et al, , 2004Mitchell et al, 2002;Izmerov et al, 2004;Díaz et al, 2005). Climate change is likely to increase the risk of mortality and injury from wind storms, flash floods and coastal flooding (Kirch et al, 2005).…”
Section: Human Healthmentioning
confidence: 99%