Africa renewed its efforts to document maternal and perinatal deaths in 2014 following the release of the WHO’s maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) guidelines. Successful ...

Death certification and cause of death reporting constitute fundamental processes within public health and epidemiological monitoring. The accurate recording of these details is imperative, as the ...

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

Accurate determinations of cause and manner of death are essential to the nation’s public health and legal systems. In both systems, the responsibility for determining and certifying cause and manner ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...

Chaplain Jacobs escalates campaign to state after two years of unmet local reporting. County agencies cite new death-certificate system and privacy limits for data gaps. Council members plan to press ...

Dylan Thomas Doyle does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

For years, the public had no way to know just how many people died in Missouri’s prisons, a Marshall Project investigation found, because the state Department of Corrections wasn’t counting. “Deaths ...