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Excess mortality

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Mortality displacement is a the degree to which deaths during a heat wave reduce the average life-span of a population.

A "harvesting" effect is when heat principally affects those whose health is already compromised and who would have died in the short term anyway.[1]


References

  1. ^ The Impact of Heat Waves and Cold Spells on Mortality Rates in the Dutch Population Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 109, Number 5, May 2001
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