The COVID‐19 pandemic and cause of death Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractThis article explores the emergence and development of Death Certificates as a means of establishing the cause of death for individuals and populations. The difficulty in choosing which disease caused death when several are described on the Certificate explains why the number of COVID‐19‐related deaths has been difficult to determine. This problem also draws attention to the dominant biomedical explanation for the cause of death that both promote and circumscribe what can be recognised as a valid cause.

authors

• Armstrong, David

status

• published 

publication date

• August 2021

has subject area

• 1117 Public Health and Health Services (FoR)
• 1608 Sociology (FoR)
• 2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields (FoR)
• COVID-19 (MeSH)
• Cause of Death (MeSH)
• Death Certificates (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Pandemics (MeSH)
• Public Health (Science Metrix)
• SARS-CoV-2 (MeSH)

published in

• Sociology of Health and Illness  Journal

keywords

• COVID-19
• Cause of Death
• Death Certificates
• Humans
• Pandemics
• SARS-CoV-2
• cause of death
• death certificates
• epidemics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/1467-9566.13347

start page

• 1614

end page

• 1626

volume

• 43

issue

• 7