COVID-19 pandemicCOVID-19A correction is presented to the article "A Comparison of Excess Deaths By UK Country and Region During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic," which appeared in the 2023 issue of the magazine.European Journal of Public Health...
Excess deaths for the week ending April 17, 2020, were 11,854, and 11,539 for the following week. Another wave of deaths occurred in January 2021, when there were more than 18,000 deaths per week between weeks three and five of that year. Improvements to life expectancy slowing Between...
Spending large amounts of time sitting or lounging around during the day is linked to around 50,000 deaths per year in the UK and the NHS spends in excess of £0.7bn per year treating the health consequences, suggests research from Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University published ...
publication by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on excess death rates in the UK for the year 2022. I wanted to start by explaining that the difference between the actual and expected number of deaths recorded, from any cause, is reported as excess ...
But here's the difference: these "excess deaths" are happening not in the middle of winter - traditional flu season - but in the spring. This matters.Put simply: more people are dying than we have ever seen at this time of year - at least as far as the past half century's worth ...
On the other side of the globe, the UK was put to the test by extreme heat last year. Data from the UK Office for National Statistics indicates that over 3,000 excess deaths were recorded during the heatwaves last summer. So what happened? What are some of the lessons...
Although COVID is still a factor driving excess deaths, Mr Fell highlights the mortality rate for age-old public health concerns like smoking, which according to the NHS, causes around 76,000 deaths a year in the UK. "We still have all the oth...
Britain recorded 65,000 more deaths than usual in the past three months as the coronavirus ravaged the country but numbers are now returning to normal, new data showed Tuesday. In the week to June 19, so-called excess deaths in England and Wales fell below the five-year average for the ...
Along with the US and Peru, the UK is still registering a large number of excess deaths, although the toll has dropped sharply since the 12,000 weekly peak in mid-April. Peru has seen a large rise in deaths this year partly because it has had to battle other diseases, in addition to...
Road traffic accidents are responsible for over 3000 deaths per year in the UK, according to Department for Transport (2004a) figures. Although progress is being made in a number of areas, vehicle occupant fatalities have not been falling in line with casualty reduction targets for the year 201...