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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.”
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.
WHO has defined the ‘underlying cause of death’ as follows: the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death, or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury.
Cause of death (COD) is the natural disease or injury that led to physiologic changes resulting in death. Manner of death (MOD) is the classification / categorization used for how the death came about. MOD commonly has 5 categories: Natural. Homicide. Suicide. Accident. Undetermined.
Cause of death: The disease or trauma that directly caused the victim's death. Examples include a heart attack, a gunshot wound to the head, or a drug overdose. Mechanism of death: The specific physiological derangement that actually led to the cessation of life.
While most adults understand “cause of death” as the medical opinion which describes why a death occurred, many are unfamiliar with the reason for including a “manner” description or its purpose.
Cause of Death. On the basis of cause death can be classified as due to: Diseases –natural deaths. Trauma or poisons –unnatural deaths. Manner of Death. It is important as has legal consequences. a. Homicide. i. Culpable -Murder or manslaughter. ii. Non culpable –Justified (judicial hanging) or excusable (self defense) b. Suicide. c. Accident. d.
In general, the immediate cause of death is the disease/injury that leads to death “today” and the underlying cause of death is the disease/injury leading to the immediate cause. There may be a number of intermediate causes interposed between the immediate cause and the underlying cause.
The concluding or final event that actually produces death; other CODs include natural causes, HIV risk factors, injury and poisoning, dementia, periprocedural deaths associated with medical treatment or diagnostic/therapeutic procedures and devices, perinatal death (CAP Today 12/95, p57) .
The cause of death is the action that initiates the cessation of life; the manner of death is the way in which this action came about. There are, literally, thousands of causes of death, but there are only four manners in which to die: natural, accidental, suicide, and homicide.