Аннтотация

One demographic indicator is the structure of mortality by cause. Analysis of the causes of death allows you to define the fight against the disease, efforts should be focused to reduce mortality and on the effectiveness of measures against those or other diseases. The basis of information about the causes of death is a medical certificate of death, filling it depends on the correct diagnosis, the choice of the original cause of death, coding, as well as on policy documents aimed at reducing mortality from a particular cause. In the Russian Federation, in contrast to the countries of the European region, there is a fairly high proportion of inaccurately marked conditions, which account for 6.9% of all causes (in 2010 - 5%), the main reason for this is «old age», which ranks 4th among the leading causes of death (5% of all causes, in 2010 - 2.8%), as well as damage with uncertain intentions, which are on the 7th rank place of the leading causes of death (2.3% of all causes, in 2010 - 2%).