What is it about?
Examines a monthly time series of deaths in England and Wales going back to the 1950's for previously unexplained periods of higher death. A 12-month running total is used as a frequency filter to locate these events.
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Why is it important?
Public Health agencies were previously unaware of these extended periods of higher death or had ignored them as a quirk of nature. Clearly something capable of killing large numbers of people just may be important!
Perspectives
The evidence for these events is written all over health care and mortality data from around the world, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: A Previously Uncharacterized Infectious-like Event Leading to Spatial Spread of Deaths Across England and Wales: Characteristics of the most Recent Event and a Time Series for Past Events, British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research, January 2015, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/bjmmr/2015/14285.
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