Increased ratio of summer to winter deaths due to climate warming in Australia, 1968–2018

• Published in: Australian and New Zealand journal of public health Vol. 45; no. 5; pp. 504 - 505
• Main Authors: Hanigan, Ivan C., Dear, Keith B.G., Woodward, Alistair
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australia Elsevier B.V 01.10.2021; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Elsevier Limited; Elsevier
• Subjects: Age groups; Climate; Climate change; Emergency preparedness; extreme weather; Fatalities; Forecasts and trends; Global warming; Health aspects; Kidney diseases; Mortality; mortality ratio; open climate campaign; Public health; Ratios; season; Summer; time‐series model; Winter; Australia; season; time‐series model; extreme weather; mortality ratio; climate change; time-series model

To determine if global warming has changed the balance of summer and winter deaths in Australia. Counts of summer and winter cause‐specific deaths of subjects aged 55 and over for the years 1968–2018 were entered into a Poisson time‐series regression. Analysis was stratified by states and territorie...