title: Death registration: history, methods, and legal issues.
abstract: This article includes a brief discussion of the evolution death registration as it changed from records of church burial ceremonies to the recording of vital events by government in defined registration areas; today's death registration system in the United States; classification and coding procedures; limitations of data derived from death registration; educational materials; legal issues involving death certificates; and the re-engineering of the death registration process.
authors.affiliation: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Gerogia, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hanzlick
mesh_terms: D003644:Death Certificates / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012042:Registries; D014481:United States