Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in Latvia: a population-level analysis of all-cause and noncommunicable disease deaths in 2020

• Main Authors: Inese Gobiņa (Author), Andris Avotiņš (Author), Una Kojalo (Author), Ieva Strēle (Author), Santa Pildava (Author), Anita Villeruša (Author), Ģirts Briģis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Age-standardised noncommunicable disease (NCD) mortality and the proportion of the elderly population in Latvia are high, while public health and health care systems are underresourced. The emerging COVID-19 pandemic raised concerns about its detrimental impact on all-cause and n...