Evaluating Spatial, Cause-Specific and Seasonal Effects of Excess Mortality Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Germany, 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating mortality effects of the COVID-19 pandemic using all-cause mortality data for national populations is inevitably associated with the risk of masking important subnational differentials and hampering targeted health policies. This study aims at assessing simultaneously cause-specific, spatial and seasonal mortality effects attributable to the pandemic in Germany in 2020.

Methods

Our analyses rely on official cause-of-death statistics consisting of 5.65 million individual death records reported for the German population during 2015-2020. We conduct differential mortality analyses by age, sex, cause, month and district (N = 400), using decomposition and standardisation methods, comparing each strata of the mortality level observed in 2020 with its expected

SUBMITTER: Muhlichen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10686941 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature