surveillance (version 1.5-4)

momo: Danish 1994-2008 all cause mortality data for six age groups

Description

Weekly number of all cause mortality from 1994-2008 in each of the six age groups

Usage

data(momo)

encoding

latin1

source

Department of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark StatBank Denmark, Statistics Denmark, http://www.statistikbanken.dk/

Details

The object of class sts contains the number of all cause mortality from 1994-2008 in Denmark for each of the six age groups <1, 85="" 8601="" 1-4,="" 5-14,="" 15-44,="" 45-64,="" 65-74,="" 75-84="" and="" years.="" a="" special="" feature="" of="" such="" euromomo="" data="" is="" that="" weeks="" are="" handled="" as="" defined="" by="" the="" iso="" standard,="" which="" can="" be="" sts class.

The population slot of the momo object contains the population size in each of the six age groups. These are yearly data obtained from the StatBank Denmark.

The aim of the EuroMOMO project is to develop and strengthen real-time monitoring of mortality across Europe; this will enhance the management of serious public health risks such as pandemic influenza, heat waves and cold snaps. For further details see the homepage of the EuroMOMO project.

References

H�hle, M. and A. Mazick, A. (2009) Aberration detection in R illustrated by Danish mortality monitoring, Book chapter to appear in T. Kass-Hout and X. Zhang (Eds.) Biosurveillance: A Health Protection Priority, CRC Press.

EuroMOMO project page, http://www.euromomo.eu/, Last accessed: 13 Oct 2010.

Examples

data("momo")
plot(momo,legend.opts=NULL)