Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic through decomposition of life expectancy according to leading causes and place of death in Czechia.

ABSTRACT: While the direct effects of the pandemic are well documented, less is known about the indirect ones, including changes in healthcare provision or human behavior. This paper aims to study the impact of indirect consequences on mortality, focusing on two leading causes (cardiovascular diseases, COVID-19) and places of death in Czechia, during the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most severely affected European countries. The analysis was performed using data from the Czech Statistical Office and the Institute of Health Information and Statistics. The study compares annual mortality changes during three time periods: pre-pandemic (2018-2019), pandemic beginning and peaking (2020-2021), and pandemic fading (2022). Pandemic years were covered by the WHO public health emergency of international con

SUBMITTER: Hulikova Tesarkova K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10676350 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature