Using death certificate data to study place of death in 9 European countries: opportunities and weaknesses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Systematic and reliable epidemiological information at population level, preferably cross-national, is needed for an adequate planning of (end-of-life) health care policies, e.g. concerning place of death, but is currently lacking. This study illustrates opportunities and weaknesses of death certificate data to provide such information on place of death and associated factors in nine European countries (seven entire countries and five regions).

Methods

We investigated the possibility and modality of all partners in this international comparative study (BE, DK, IT, NL, NO, SE, UK) to negotiate a dataset containing all deaths of one year with their national/regional administration of mortality statistics, and analysed the availability of information about place of d

SUBMITTER: Cohen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2099436 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature