Is Harvest Failure the Link between Climate Variability and Mortality in a Pre-Industrial Society? Results from Northern Sweden

Schumann, Barbara; Edvinsson, Sören; Rocklöv, Joacim

doi:10.1289/isee.2014.p1-123

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“…This assessment is supported by our analyses on the relationship of harvest outcomes with climate and mortality in the Skellefteå region. Here we found that the largest risk for harvest failure was a cold summer, and harvest failure significantly increased annual death counts in the following year (Schumann, Edvinsson, and Rocklöv 2014). In our present study, harvest failure the previous year slightly changed the association between temperature and mortality towards 1, but not between precipitation and mortality.…”

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On the association between weather variability and total and cause-specific mortality before and during industrialization in Sweden

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Edvinsson

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BACKGROUND While there is ample evidence for health risks associated with heat and other extreme weather events today, little is known about the impact of weather patterns on population health in preindustrial societies. OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of weather patterns on population health in Sweden before and during industrialization. METHODS We obtained records of monthly mortality and of monthly mean temperatures and precipitation for Skellefteå parish, northern Sweden, for the period 1800-1950. The associations between monthly total mortality, as well as monthly mortality due to infectious and cardiovascular diseases, and monthly mean temperature and cumulative precipitation were modelled using a time series approach for three separate periods,

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