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Medical Examiners, Coroners, and Public Health: A Review and Update
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2006 AbstractContext.—Traditionally, the emphasis of work done by medical examiners, coroners, and the death investigation community has been viewed as serving the criminal justice system. During the last several decades, however, an important role for these 3 groups has emerged within public health.Objective.—To provide important background information on ...
Randy Hanzlick
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Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2021 IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic and governmental responses have raised concerns about any corresponding rise in suicide and/or drug toxicity mortality due to exacerbations of mental illness, economic issues, changes to drug supply ...
Emily Schleihauf, Matthew J. Bowes
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BJGP Open, 2022 Background: The global burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is forecast to increase, and anticoagulants will remain important medicines for its management.
Ali Anis +4 more
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JMIR Mental Health, 2023 BackgroundFirearm suicide has been more prevalent among males, but age-adjusted female firearm suicide rates increased by 20% from 2010 to 2020, outpacing the rate increase among males by about 8 percentage points, and female ...
Weipeng Zhou +3 more
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Medical Examiners, Coroners, and Public Health
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2007 James L. Luke
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Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2022 Background The investigation into sudden unexpected and unnatural deaths supports criminal justice, aids in litigation, and provides important information for public health including surveillance, epidemiology, and prevention programs.
Salona Prahladh, Jacqueline van Wyk
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Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture-recapture analysis. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2017 Prior research suggests that United States governmental sources documenting the number of law-enforcement-related deaths (i.e., fatalities due to injuries inflicted by law enforcement officers) undercount these incidents.
Justin M Feldman +3 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 We analyzed US multiple cause-of-death data for 2003–2006 for demographic and clinical determinants for autopsy in unexplained deaths possibly resulting from infectious causes.
Lindy Liu +3 more
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Fatal Infectious Disease Surveillance in a Medical Examiner Database
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 Increasing infectious disease deaths, the emergence of new infections, and bioterrorism have made surveillance for infectious diseases a public health concern.
Mitchell I. Wolfe +2 more
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Vital Role of Medical Examiners and Coroners in Organ Transplantation [PDF]
American Journal of Transplantation, 2004 Many people die owing to the shortage of donor organs. Medical examiners and coroners (MEs/Cs) play a vital role in making organs available for potential recipients. Medical examiners'/coroners' case data were collected using a structured confirmatory-recorded methodology for calendar years 2000-01 and were linked and analyzed with donor and transplant
Kevin J. O’Connor +4 more
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