DVD/261012 - Monitoring of excess mortality across Europe for timely assessment of the impact of communicable diseases and public health threats

jor public health threats. Excess all-cause mortality is a basic indicator for the assessment of the impact of influenza epidemics in the general population and an understanding of its epidemiology is key for effective public health planning and action. The most widely accepted and utilised methodol

ogy for estimating influenza mortality is to model this from time-series data of all-cause mortality. Vital statistics are accessible for all European countries, but might not be available in a timely fashion. The variation of mortality rat