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0818/2012 - Production of information on mortality from external causes, meanings in completing death certificates
Produção da informação sobre mortalidade por causas externas: sentidos e significados no preenchimento da declaração de óbito

Author:

• CRISTIANE MAGALHÃES DE MELO - Melo, C.M. - VIÇOSA, MINAS GERAIS - SECRETARIA MUNICIPAL DE SAÚDE DE VIÇOSA - <cristianeufv@yahoo.com.br>

Co-author(s):

• Paula Dias Bevilacqua - Bevilacqua, P.D. - Viçosa, - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE VIÇOSA - <paula.bevilacqua@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0015-2154
• MARISA BARLETTO - BARLETTO, M. - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE VIÇOSA - <barletto@ufv.br>

Thematic Area:

Informação e Comunicação em Saúde

Abstract:

The study aimed to understand the meanings attached for Death Certificate (DO) by doctors and the implications of subjectivity in the production of information on mortality. Guided by qualitative research, semi-structured interviews and content analysis, techniques were chosen as for the understanding of representations and experiences involving the completion of the DO. The results revealed that different meanings are attributed to DO depending on how death occurred and according to different tasks, the document takes a practical point of view, such as functions of the ‘epidemiological‘ and ‘legal‘. The results suggest that the DO used as a technical and objective data collection and production of health statistics is constituted of subjectivity, which turns it an instrument that in the medical practice and social reality, reflects cultural issues, the social position of the subject that fills and their representations of death.

Keywords:

health statistics death subjectivity Content Analysis

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Melo, C.M., Bevilacqua, P.D., BARLETTO, M.. Production of information on mortality from external causes, meanings in completing death certificates. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2012/May). [Citado em 15/05/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/production-of-information-on-mortality-from-external-causes-meanings-in-completing-death-certificates/10304?id=10304



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