Open AccessCommunity-wide Mortality Rates in Beijing, China, During the July 2012 Flood Compared with Unexposed Periods
Author(s) -
Meilin Yan,
Ander Wilson,
Jennifer L. Peel,
Sheryl Magzamen,
Qinghua Sun,
Tiantian Li,
G. Brooke Anderson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000001182
Subject(s) - beijing , flood myth , medicine , relative risk , environmental health , china , flooding (psychology) , demography , confidence interval , case fatality rate , geography , population , psychology , archaeology , sociology , psychotherapist
On 21-22 July 2012, Beijing, China, suffered its heaviest rainfall in 60 years. Two studies have estimated the fatality toll of this disaster using a traditional surveillance approach. However, traditional surveillance can miss disaster-related deaths, including a substantial number of deaths from natural causes triggered by disaster exposure. Here, we investigated community-wide mortality risk during this flood compared with rates in unexposed reference periods.