Feasibility of using death certificates for studying place of death in Latin America
Objective. This paper assesses the availability and quality of death certificate data in Latin America and the feasibility of using these data to study place of death and associated factors. Methods. In this comparative study, we collected examples of current official death certificates and digital...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:62eacf805edb47b7acda86158b60900f 2023-05-15T15:09:33+02:00 Feasibility of using death certificates for studying place of death in Latin America Katja Seitz Luc Deliens Joachim Cohen Emanuel Adrian Cardozo Vilma A. Tripodoro Fernando Cesar Iwamoto Marcucci Luís Fernando Rodrigues Lea Derio Miguel Antonio Sánchez-Cárdenas Valentina Salazar Victor Rolando Samayoa Ximena Pozo Diane A. Dykeman-Sabado Celina Castañeda de la Lanza Nineth Carolina Baltodano Algaba Gabriela Píriz Alvarez Leticia Viana Tulio González Tania Pastrana 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2021.149 https://doaj.org/article/62eacf805edb47b7acda86158b60900f EN ES PT eng spa por Pan American Health Organization https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/55343 https://doaj.org/toc/1020-4989 https://doaj.org/toc/1680-5348 1020-4989 1680-5348 doi:10.26633/RPSP.2021.149 https://doaj.org/article/62eacf805edb47b7acda86158b60900f Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, Vol 45, Iss 149, Pp 1-10 (2021) death certificates comparative study latin america Medicine R Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2021.149 2022-12-31T04:25:48Z Objective. This paper assesses the availability and quality of death certificate data in Latin America and the feasibility of using these data to study place of death and associated factors. Methods. In this comparative study, we collected examples of current official death certificates and digital data files containing information about all deaths that occurred during 1 year in 19 Latin American countries. Data were collected from June 2019 to May 2020. The records for place of death and associated variables were studied. The criteria for data quality were completeness, number of ill-defined causes of death and timeliness. Results. All 19 countries provided copies of current official death certificates and 18 of these registered the place of death. Distinguishing among hospital or other health care institution, home and other was possible for all countries. Digital data files with death certificate data were available from 12 countries and 1 region. Three countries had data considered to be of high quality and seven had data considered to be of medium quality. Categories for place of death and most of the predetermined factors possibly associated with place of death were included in the data files. Conclusions. The quality of data sets was rated medium to high in 10 countries. Hence, death certificate data make it feasible to conduct an international comparative study on place of death and the associated factors in Latin America. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública 45 1 |
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Objective. This paper assesses the availability and quality of death certificate data in Latin America and the feasibility of using these data to study place of death and associated factors. Methods. In this comparative study, we collected examples of current official death certificates and digital data files containing information about all deaths that occurred during 1 year in 19 Latin American countries. Data were collected from June 2019 to May 2020. The records for place of death and associated variables were studied. The criteria for data quality were completeness, number of ill-defined causes of death and timeliness. Results. All 19 countries provided copies of current official death certificates and 18 of these registered the place of death. Distinguishing among hospital or other health care institution, home and other was possible for all countries. Digital data files with death certificate data were available from 12 countries and 1 region. Three countries had data considered to be of high quality and seven had data considered to be of medium quality. Categories for place of death and most of the predetermined factors possibly associated with place of death were included in the data files. Conclusions. The quality of data sets was rated medium to high in 10 countries. Hence, death certificate data make it feasible to conduct an international comparative study on place of death and the associated factors in Latin America. |
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Katja Seitz Luc Deliens Joachim Cohen Emanuel Adrian Cardozo Vilma A. Tripodoro Fernando Cesar Iwamoto Marcucci Luís Fernando Rodrigues Lea Derio Miguel Antonio Sánchez-Cárdenas Valentina Salazar Victor Rolando Samayoa Ximena Pozo Diane A. Dykeman-Sabado Celina Castañeda de la Lanza Nineth Carolina Baltodano Algaba Gabriela Píriz Alvarez Leticia Viana Tulio González Tania Pastrana |
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Katja Seitz Luc Deliens Joachim Cohen Emanuel Adrian Cardozo Vilma A. Tripodoro Fernando Cesar Iwamoto Marcucci Luís Fernando Rodrigues Lea Derio Miguel Antonio Sánchez-Cárdenas Valentina Salazar Victor Rolando Samayoa Ximena Pozo Diane A. Dykeman-Sabado Celina Castañeda de la Lanza Nineth Carolina Baltodano Algaba Gabriela Píriz Alvarez Leticia Viana Tulio González Tania Pastrana |
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Feasibility of using death certificates for studying place of death in Latin America |
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Feasibility of using death certificates for studying place of death in Latin America |
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