Tom Longden
@tomecon.bsky.social
🇦🇺🇨🇿Researcher - 1st generation Uni - working on environmental, energy & health economics @ Western Sydney University Urban Transformations Research Centre
Excess mortality studies with lower heat-related deaths used data for 3–5 capital cities. These studies had many more cold-related deaths (3818–76,630) than heat-related deaths (214–5369). These studies found 6–18 times more cold-related deaths for Australian cities www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Underestimating heat-related mortality—a comparison of excess mortality and death record studies for Australia
Under-reporting of heat-related mortality can be substantial as death certificates
often omit non-biomedical external factors.1 As noted for COVID-19, excess mortality
estimates based on analysis of a...
www.thelancet.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Excess mortality studies with lower heat-related deaths used data for 3–5 capital cities. These studies had many more cold-related deaths (3818–76,630) than heat-related deaths (214–5369). These studies found 6–18 times more cold-related deaths for Australian cities www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...