A Study of Cause of Death Certificates in India SciDoc Publishers | Open Access | Science Journals | Media Partners

Cause of Death Certificate though, a compulsory obligation on the part of Registered Medical Practioner [1], it is poorly performed and the information available in the Certificates are Inadequate, Inappropriate and Misleading the Health Policy Makers. The terminologies used in the Cause of Death statement should satisfy the ICD 10 [2] coding and the Demographic Characters, Autopsy information and Authors information should all be adequate for a complete Cause of Death certificate. The information thus produced for the Registration is vital for the Statistical point of view for a Nation [3]. It is only based on this Statistics the Health planning, Health policies and Research are facilated. In the absence of Appropriate statistics the Money spent on this Health planning, Research and Disease prevention is mere waste of resources. Hence this study is undertaken to highlight the Inadequacies and inappropriateness of the Cause of Death certification