Jodie Withers, Health Analysis and Life Events at ONS, said: "While there has been an increase in excess winter deaths making the total the second highest over the last five winter periods, the number does not exceed the peak that was observed in the 2014 to 2015 winter period. The increa...
How are deaths with known/unknown causes handled? Due to limitations (bugs) within Blizzard's Combat Log, it is sometimes impossible for any addon to conclusively determine how a player died. As a general solution to this problem, Fatality assumes that any damaging hit taken at least 2 ...
For continental heat extremes, we use the metric heat excess, which takes into account both heatwave intensity and persistence into one single metric (Perkins-Kirkpatrick & Lewis,2020). To calculate heat excess, we identify heatwaves on a grid-point level when daily maximum near-surface air temp...
Background;Research on ethnic differentials in mortality in England and Wales has focused on immigrants because, until now, studies collecting data on ethnicity have not covered sufficient deaths to investigate the subject. International migrants are selected for good health and tend to have low ...
Jodie Withers, Health Analysis and Life Events at ONS, said: "While there has been an increase in excess winter deaths making the total the second highest over the last five winter periods, the number does not exceed the peak that was observed in the 2014 to 2015 winter period. The increa...