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In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an autopsy needs to be performed by a pathologist.
The underlying cause is defined by the World Health Organization as “the disease or injury that initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death, or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury.”
Learn about historical causes of death over time, as well as modern definitions of old diseases and archaic medical terms.
What do the handwritten numbers on death certificates mean, and why would we need them? Cause of Death / ICD Code Meaning. We usually see these codes in the “cause of death” section. Sometimes there are two numbers, related to the primary and secondary causes.
The cause of death is the specific injury or disease that leads to death. The manner of death is the determination of how the injury or disease leads to death. There are five manners of death (natural, accident, suicide, homicide, and undetermined).
Dying by natural causes typically means an accident or force did not cause the death. This term can also describe a person dying of old age when the vital organs naturally stop working.
Lower-middle-income countries have the most balanced top 10 causes of death: 5 noncommunicable, and 5 communicable, with the new cause COVID-19 topping the list and costing over 4 million lives in 2021.