Mortality Monitoring in the Netherlands

Authors

  • Liselotte van Asten National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, Bilthoven, Netherlands.
  • Marit de Lange National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, Bilthoven, Netherlands.
  • Carel Harmsen Statistics Netherlands, Department of Demographic and socio-economic Statistics, The Hague, Netherlands.
  • Kees van den Wijngaard National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, Bilthoven, Netherlands.
  • Mirjam Kretzschmar National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, Bilthoven, Netherlands; University Medical Center Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • Wim van der Hoek

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5130

Abstract

Weekly monitoring of nation-wide number of deaths in the Netherlands (population 16 million) was set up to track events or outbreaks and estimate their impact. The system monitors reported number of deaths from all causes at 3 different time-lags: deaths reported within 1, 2 and 3 weeks (43%-98% complete). Baselines and prediction limits are calculated using a 5 year historical period and serfling type regression. For the 2012/2013 season excess deaths coincided with the exceptionally long 18 week influenza season and were considerable (6,000+ excess above baseline) compared to other seasons.

Author Biography

Liselotte van Asten, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, Bilthoven, Netherlands.

Liselotte van Asten, PhD, is an epidemiologist at the Center for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands (part of the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands' RIVM). Current research interests include infectious disease surveillance (respiratory pathogens) and mortality monitoring.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

van Asten, L., de Lange, M., Harmsen, C., van den Wijngaard, K., Kretzschmar, M., & van der Hoek, W. (2014). Mortality Monitoring in the Netherlands. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5130

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Poster Presentations

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