Seasonality in Human Mortality: A Demographic Approach

In: Demographic Research Monographs, A Series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract

In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, mortality is typically larger in winter than in summer which is attributed to the detrimental effects of cold to health. This book investigates whether sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors play a role as important for seasonal mortality as they do for mortality in general