Excess mortality among the elderly in European Countries, December 2014 to February 2015

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Molbak K ^a   Espenhain, L ^a   Nielsen, J ^a   Tersago, K ^b   Bossuyt, N ^b   Denissov, G ^c   Baburin, A ^c   Virtanen, M ^d   Fouillet, A ^e   Sideroglou, T ^f   Gkolfinopoulou, K ^f   Paldy, A ^g   Bobvos, J ^g   Van Asten, L ^h   De Lange, M ^h   Nunes, B ⁱ   Da Silva, S ⁱ   Larrauri, A ^j   Gomez I L ^j   Tsoumanis, A ^k   Junker, C ^l   Green, H ^m   Pebody, R ^m   McMenamin, J ⁿ   Reynolds, A ⁿ   Mazick, A ^a   more..

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^c National Institute for Health Devlopment   (Estonia)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^f Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Hungary)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^j CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^k SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^l Federal Statistical Office   (Switzerland)

^m PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; EUROPE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A; MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALGORITHM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PANDEMIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEASON; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PANDEMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEASONS;

EID: 84925423433     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.11.21065     Document Type: Article

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