Description
The mortality monitoring system was initiated in August 2009 during the influenza A(H1N1) pandemic. It is a collaboration between the Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb) and Statistics Netherlands. The system monitors nation-wide reported number of deaths (population: 16.8 million) from all causes, as cause of death information is not available real-time. Data is received from Statistics Netherlands by weekly emails.
Objective
Weekly numbers of deaths are monitored to increase the capacity to deal with unusual (disease) events such as pandemic influenza, other infections and non-infectious incidents. The monitoring information can potentially be used to track and estimate the impact of an outbreak on all cause mortality.