What caused the spike in mortality in England and Wales in january 2015?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 131-137

  Hiam, Lucinda ^a   Dorling, Danny ^b   Harrison, Dominic ^c   McKee, Martin ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; DATA ANALYSIS; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTER; NOTE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REGISTER; SOCIAL CARE; WEATHER; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; TRENDS; WALES;

CAUSE OF DEATH; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MORTALITY; WALES;

EID: 85016155485     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: 17581095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0141076817693600     Document Type: Note

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