Bart, it was you who claimed they could be dying from, quote: "reduced resistance due to lack of healthy food, lack of exposure to daylight, are relatively sensitive to respiratory issues combined with dry air, or have cardiovascular problems and difficulties in regulating the body heat temperature, the list goes on?…"
These problems are alleviated by warmer temperatures.
To spell it out more clearly, obviously there is some sort of a correlation with temperature, but it is not the temperature that is causing the Excess Winter Mortality. It is, amongst various other factors e.g. Influenza which thrives in conditions that people have reduced resistance and interact and stay indoors more, have an irritated respiratory tract (due to wrong heating practices), so Influenza can lead to additional pneumonia, housing that is inadequately insulated etc. that leads to that dry air (and additionally wastes a lot of heat) that kills a lot of extra people.
So in that specific case
it's the influenza versus EWM correlation that explains the actual cause and effect. And a lot can be done to improve the situation without heating up the entire environment during the whole year round (which cause all sorts of even more unwanted effects, like pests, flooding, Droughts, social unrest, wars, and even more global warming).
As the Scandinavian example shows, fewer EWM cases can be achieved, and more effectively, without increasing global temperature warming with its ill side effects.
Besides, what effect do you think that a 3 degree Celsius global temperature rise by the end of the century has on Excess Winter Mortality? If any, it can be achieved much faster and more efficiently, and without the negative effects that global warming has, by learning from and doing what the Scandinavians do.
Cheers,
Bart