Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland.

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dc.contributor.authorColvin, Christopher L.
dc.contributor.authorMcLaughlin, Eoin
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-13T14:48:15Z
dc.date.available2021-04-13T14:48:15Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-29
dc.date.updated2021-04-13T14:40:52Z
dc.description.abstractUsing the Irish experience of the 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic ("Influenza-18"), we demonstrate how pandemic mortality statistics can be sensitive to the demographic composition of a country. We build a new spatially disaggregated population database for Ireland's 32 counties for 1911-1920 with vital statistics on births, ageing, migration and deaths. Our principal contribution is to show why, and how, age-at-death data should be used to construct the age-standardised statistics necessary to make meaningful comparisons of mortality rates across time and space. We conclude that studies of the economic consequences of pandemics must better control for demographic factors if they are to yield useful policy-relevant insights. For example, while Northern Ireland had a higher crude death rate during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, it also has an older population; age-adjusted mortality paints a very different picture.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.articleid100984en
dc.identifier.citationColvin, C. L. and McLaughlin, E. (2021) 'Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland', Economics & Human Biology, 41, 100984 (22 pp). doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2021.100984en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ehb.2021.100984en
dc.identifier.endpage22en
dc.identifier.issn1873-6130
dc.identifier.journaltitleEconomics and Human Biologyen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11199
dc.identifier.volume41en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.urihttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.20113381v4
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X21000083
dc.rights© 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectDemographic economicsen
dc.subjectPandemicsen
dc.subjectAge-adjusted mortalityen
dc.subjectSpanish fluen
dc.subjectCovid-19en
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.titleDeath, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland.en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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