• Death certification is to be done on the International Death Certificate that is a standard format prescribed by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.)

• This means that if a person were to die in India or U.K. or Siberia, the same death certificate format would be used to fill in the cause of death for purpose of standardization across the world

  
  

Death certification

Parts of a death certificate

• The death certificate has a

 1. Medical part - in the center of the certificate

 2. Non-medical part - at the top and bottom                section of the certificate

 1. Medical part is for the 

  i.  Cause of death

 ii.  Manner of death

 iii. Time intervals and

 iv. ICD codes

Parts of a death certificate

2. Non-Medical part has the 

i.   Identification and demographic particulars about the deceased at the top

ii.  Identification details of the certifying physician at the bottom

iii. And a detachable portion (at the bottom) for filling information on the fact         of death and handing over to the relatives ​

Parts of a death certificate

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