Laboratory

Demographic Data

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Estimating Mortality and Human Losses during Health Crises

Conducted by Dmitri A. Jdanov; Domantas Jasilionis, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Inna Danilova, László Németh; in Collaboration with David Leon (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom)

This project aims at extending and applying a uniform set of direct and indirect methods to estimate mortality surfaces for countries that sustain human losses due to epidemics, wars, and other disasters.  Detailed Description

Publications

Timonin, S. A.; Klimkin, I.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Andreev, E. M.; McKee, M.; Leon, D. A.:

Excess mortality in Russia and its regions compared to high income countries: an analysis of monthly series of 2020

SSM-Population Health 17:101006, 1–14. (2022)    

Islam, N.; Jdanov, D. A.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Khunti, K.; Kawachi, I.; White, M.; Lewington, S.; Lacey, B.:

Effects of covid-19 pandemic on life expectancy and premature mortality in 2020: time series analysis in 37 countries

British Medical Journal 375:e066768, 1–14. (2021)    

Leon, D. A.; Jarvis, C. I.; Johnson, A. M.; Smeeth, L.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

What can trends in hospital deaths from COVID-19 tell us about the progress and peak of the pandemic? An analysis of death counts from England announced up to 25 April 2020

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)