eprintid: 13821
rev_number: 10
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datestamp: 2016-09-21 09:36:43
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creators_name: Zagheni, E.
creators_name: Muttarak, R.
creators_name: Strießnig, E.
creators_id: 1959
creators_id: 1862
creators_orcid: 0000-0003-0627-4451
creators_orcid: 0000-0001-5419-9498
title: Differential mortality patterns from hydro-meteorological disasters: Evidence from cause-of-death data by age and sex
ispublished: pub
divisions: prog_pop
abstract: This paper evaluates the heterogeneous impact of hydro-meteorological disasters on populations along the dimensions of age, sex, and human development. The analysis is based on previously untapped cause-of-death data over the period 1995– 2011 that were obtained from the WHO mortality database, and were based on the civil registration records of 63 countries/territories. Using these data, we evaluate patterns of mortality related to meteorological disasters in the spirit of model life tables.We observe that mortality rates from hydro-meteorological disasters for men are consistently higher than for women across all age groups, and that the differential by sex is larger for adults than for young children or the elderly. Furthermore, the sex differential in mortality becomes smaller with improvements in human development. Comparing our disaster fatalities with those recorded in the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), we find that the number of deaths from hydro-meteorological disasters was underestimated in the WHO database, especially in the case of highimpact events. In the paper we discuss issues of data quality and data harmonisation for the study of the differential demographic impact of natural disasters. One of our main goals is to stimulate an interdisciplinary debate in this area.
date: 2016-09-20
date_type: published
publisher: Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/populationyearbook2015s47
creators_browse_id: 213
creators_browse_id: 299
creators_browse_id: 213
creators_browse_id: 1985
full_text_status: public
publication: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
volume: 1
place_of_pub: Vienna, Austria
pagerange: 47-70
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-3-7001-8007-4
issn: 1728-4414
book_title: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2015
editors_name: Muttarak, R.
editors_name: Jiang, L.
editors_id: 1959
editors_id: AL0176
editors_orcid: 0000-0003-0627-4451
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fp7_project: no
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
citation:   Zagheni, E., Muttarak, R. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/213.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-4451 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-4451>, & Strießnig, E. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/299.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5419-9498 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5419-9498>  (2016).  Differential mortality patterns from hydro-meteorological disasters: Evidence from cause-of-death data by age and sex.    In:  Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2015. Eds. Muttarak, R. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/213.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-4451 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-4451> & Jiang, L. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/1985.html>, pp. 47-70 Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.  ISBN 978-3-7001-8007-4     
document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13821/1/Differential%20mortality%20patterns%20from%20hydro-meteorological%20disasters.pdf