Death Certificate Statement of Occupation: Its Usefulness in Comparing Mortalities

proposed death certificate form

proposed death certificate form ahangarzade rezaee s* received: 16 july, 2010 accepted: 25oct, 2010 abstract background & aims: health is the most important issue for the development of social justice in all developing countries. human life is strongly linked to accidents, injuries, and diseases that cause millions of deaths annually in the world. death record information is obtained through de...

Competing causes of death: a death certificate study.

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread interest in competing causes of death, empirical information on interrelationships between causes of death is scarce. We have used death certificate information to estimate the prevalence of competing causes of death at the moment of dying from specific underlying causes of death. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a stratified sample of 5975 deaths occurring in The Ne...

Certificate Policy and Practice Statement for the GridShib CA

Certificate Policy and Practice Statement for the NCSA MICS CA

Utility of death certificate data in predicting cancer incidence.

BACKGROUND Studies often rely on death certificates to identify cancer occurrence. This research assessed the death certificate's ability to reflect cancer incidence and factors that influence agreement with cancer registry data. METHODS This study compared death certificates to cancer incidence data for an occupational cohort of 1,795 deceased workers who were registered by the Iowa Cancer R...