150 Years of temperature-related excess mortality in the Netherlands

Peter Ekamper, Joop Garssen, Coen van Duin and Frans van Poppel
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Joop Garssen: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS)
Coen van Duin: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS)
Frans van Poppel: Nederlands Interdisciplinair Demografisch Instituut (NIDI)

Demographic Research, 2009, vol. 21, issue 14, 385-426

Abstract: Even in present-day high-income countries, there is a lot of evidence of a high degree of vulnerability of the population to both high and low outdoor temperatures. The magnitude of temperature-related mortality is strongly related to a wide variety of social, economic, and behavioural factors. To gain insight into the changing impact of cold and heat on mortality, we analyze Dutch individual death records in relation to daily temperature for the period 1855-2006 for one of the 11 Dutch provinces. Making use of negative binomial regression analysis, we study whether the effect of temperature varied by age, sex, and social class, and analyze the changes in the vulnerability to temperature fluctuations.

Keywords: mortality; Netherlands; infant mortality; heat waves; cold spells; temperature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.14

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