Every year, about 30,000 people die by suicide in the US, and some 650,000 receive
emergency treatment after a suicide attempt. Often, those most at risk are the least able to …

Death certificates serve the critical functions of providing documentation for
legal/administrative purposes and vital statistics for epidemiologic/health policy purposes. In …

Importance Sepsis is present in many hospitalizations that culminate in death. The
contribution of sepsis to these deaths, and the extent to which they are preventable, is …

PROBLEM: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a public health problem in the United States. In
2009, approximately 3.5 million patients with a TBI listed as primary or secondary diagnosis …

Objective: Errors in cause and manner of death on death certificates are common and affect
families, mortality statistics, and public health research. The primary objective of this study …

A comprehensive, systematic synthesis was conducted of daily time-series studies of air
pollution and mortality from around the world. Estimates of effect sizes were extracted from …

Background: Cause of death (COD) information taken from death certificates is often
inaccurate and incomplete. However, the accuracy of Underlying CODs (UCODs) recorded …

Context.—The correctly completed death certificate provides invaluable personal,
epidemiologic, and legal information and should be thorough and accurate. Death …

OBJECTIVE: Mortality statistics are important for epidemiological research. We examine if
discrepancies between death certificate (DC) and hospital discharge condition (HDC) …

An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse,
topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the …