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