The COVID‐19 pandemic and cause of death

This article explores the emergence and development of Death Certificates as a means of establishing the cause of death for individuals and populations. The difficulty in choosing which disease caused death when several are described on the Certificate explains why the number of COVID‐19‐related dea...

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Autor principal: Armstrong, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8441867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34255866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13347
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spelling pubmed-84418672021-09-15 The COVID‐19 pandemic and cause of death Armstrong, David Sociol Health Illn Original Articles This article explores the emergence and development of Death Certificates as a means of establishing the cause of death for individuals and populations. The difficulty in choosing which disease caused death when several are described on the Certificate explains why the number of COVID‐19‐related deaths has been difficult to determine. This problem also draws attention to the dominant biomedical explanation for the cause of death that both promote and circumscribe what can be recognised as a valid cause. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-07-13 2021-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8441867/ /pubmed/34255866 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13347 Text en © 2021 The Author. Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for SHIL (SHIL) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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