CHANGES IN THE REGISTRATION OF CHRONIC CAUSES OF DEATH

对死亡率趋势的研究受到了变化的阻碍 死因分类。慢性病的角色变化 例如，死亡率中的疾病在很大程度上被分配给 这些死亡被归入定义不清或未知的类别。这些数据的使用 需要的不仅仅是对医学知识变化的理解。我们 还需要考虑登记的机构背景 死亡是发展起来的。死亡原因的分类是 有时更多地受到政府对相关信息的需求的影响 而不是主流医学理论对公共健康的影响。这次会议 将把人口学家、流行病学家和历史学家聚集在一起 医学讨论历史研究中的问题和机遇 死亡原因。

The study of trends in mortality has been hindered by the changing classifications of causes of death. The changing role of chronic diseases in mortality, for example is largely hidden by the assignment of these deaths to ill-defined or unknown categories. The use of these data requires more than an understanding of changes in medical knowledge. We also need to consider the institutional context in which registration of deaths was developed. The classification of causes of death was sometimes influenced more by governments' needs for information relevant to public health than by prevailing medical theories. This conference will bring demographers and epidemiologists together with historians of medicine to discuss the problems and opportunities in historical studies of causes of death.