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Causes of death on the death certificate represent a medical opinion that might vary among individual medical-legal officers. A properly completed cause-of-death section provides an etiological explanation of the order, type, and association of events resulting in death.
Abstract. The primary or underlying cause of death is defined as that condition or injury (or circumstances of the injury) that initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death. The question sometimes arises as to which of several existing conditions has caused death.
Cause-of-death statements on death certificates capture the sequence of events leading to death, plus the time interval between the onset of each condition and death. When a death occurs, a certifier must determine the cause (s) of death and accurately report it on the death certificate.
Aug 9, 2023 · The underlying cause of death is defined by the WHO as: a) the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death, or b) the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury. Brooks, E. G., & Reed, K. D. (2015). Principles and Pitfalls: A Guide to Death Certification.
Globally, non-communicable diseases are the most common causes of death. The chart shows what people died from globally, in 2019. Each box represents one cause, and its size is proportional to the number of deaths it caused. The most common causes of death globally — shown in blue — were from ‘non-communicable diseases’.
The cause of death is defined as the disease or injury which started the train (sequence) of morbid (disease-related) events which led directly to death, or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury.
The cause of death is the disease or injury that produces the physiological disruption inside the body resulting in death, for example, a gunshot wound to the chest. The mechanism of death is the physiological derangement that results in the death.
