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Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia
During 2020 and 2021, Australia implemented relatively stringent government restrictions yet had few COVID-19 deaths. This provides an opportunity to understand the effects of lockdowns and quarantining restrictions on short-term mortality and to help provide evidence in understanding how such publi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9659711/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36368766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009032 |
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description | During 2020 and 2021, Australia implemented relatively stringent government restrictions yet had few COVID-19 deaths. This provides an opportunity to understand the effects of lockdowns and quarantining restrictions on short-term mortality and to help provide evidence in understanding how such public health policies can impact on health. Our analysis is based on preliminary mortality data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Rates were estimated by disease and over time and compared with mortality statistics in the period 2015–2019. Comparing deaths in 2020-2021 with 2015–2019 show the annual mortality rate (per 100 000 people) fell by 5.9% from 528.4 in 2015–2019 to 497.0 in 2020–2021. Declines in mortality are across many disease categories including respiratory diseases (down 9.4 deaths per 100 000), cancer (down 7.5 deaths per 100 000) and heart disease (down 8.4 deaths per 100 000). During 2020 and 2021, Australian age-standardised mortality rates fell by 6%. This drop was similar for men and women, and was driven by a reduction in both communicable and non-communicable causes of death. Such evidence can help inform public health policies designed to both control COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-96597112022-11-14 Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia Clarke, Philip Leigh, Andrew BMJ Glob Health Analysis During 2020 and 2021, Australia implemented relatively stringent government restrictions yet had few COVID-19 deaths. This provides an opportunity to understand the effects of lockdowns and quarantining restrictions on short-term mortality and to help provide evidence in understanding how such public health policies can impact on health. Our analysis is based on preliminary mortality data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Rates were estimated by disease and over time and compared with mortality statistics in the period 2015–2019. Comparing deaths in 2020-2021 with 2015–2019 show the annual mortality rate (per 100 000 people) fell by 5.9% from 528.4 in 2015–2019 to 497.0 in 2020–2021. Declines in mortality are across many disease categories including respiratory diseases (down 9.4 deaths per 100 000), cancer (down 7.5 deaths per 100 000) and heart disease (down 8.4 deaths per 100 000). During 2020 and 2021, Australian age-standardised mortality rates fell by 6%. This drop was similar for men and women, and was driven by a reduction in both communicable and non-communicable causes of death. Such evidence can help inform public health policies designed to both control COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9659711/ /pubmed/36368766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009032 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Analysis Clarke, Philip Leigh, Andrew Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia |
title | Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia |
title_full | Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia |
title_fullStr | Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia |
title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia |
title_short | Understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in Australia |
title_sort | understanding the impact of lockdowns on short-term excess mortality in australia |
topic | Analysis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9659711/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36368766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009032 |
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