crvs:Death

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The permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after a live birth has taken place. Captures the deceased person, the cause and manner of death, the method used to ascertain cause, and the medical certifier. Aligned with the WHO definition and the ICD structure for cause-of-death classification.

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Supertypes

VitalEvent

Properties

Property Type Definition
Event date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event (birth, death, marriage, etc.) occurred. Distinct from the registration date, which is when the event was recorded by a registration authority.
Event date estimated from VitalEvent boolean
Whether the event date is an estimate rather than a known exact date. Common for late-registered births or deaths where the precise date is not documented.
Event location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The specific place where the vital event occurred (for example, the hospital of birth or the place of death). Distinct from the registration location, which is where the event was recorded.
Registration date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event was officially registered with the civil registration authority. May be later than the event date, especially for late registrations.
Registration location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The civil registration office where the vital event was registered. Often a municipal or district-level registry distinct from the place of occurrence.
Registration type from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-type)
The regime under which the registration was processed: current (within the legal window), late, court-ordered, or reconstruction of a lost record. Affects legal weight and downstream uses.
Registrar from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The civil registration officer who recorded the event. In many jurisdictions this is the officer whose signature appears on the acte.
Informant from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The person who declares the vital event to the civil registration authority. Typically a parent for births, a relative or medical professional for deaths, or the parties themselves for marriages.
Registration status from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-status)
The lifecycle state of the registration process for this vital event: whether it is declared, pending validation, registered, rejected, cancelled, or has been corrected or archived.
Identifiers from Event concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Deceased concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The person whose death is recorded. Remains a Person entity so that existing identifiers and attributes can still be referenced after death.
Place type string (crvs/place-type)
The category of place where the vital event occurred (health facility, home, en route, etc.). Complements the specific Location by describing what kind of setting it was.
Cause of death string
A free-text description of the underlying cause of death as stated on the death certificate. Captured alongside a coded cause_of_death_code when classification is available.
Cause of death code string
The coded underlying cause of death, typically an ICD-10 or ICD-11 code. The coding scheme in use is specified by cause_of_death_coding_system.
Cause of death coding system string
The classification system used to code the cause of death (for example ICD-10, ICD-11, or a national variant). Required when comparing coded causes across jurisdictions.
Manner of death string (crvs/manner-of-death)
The circumstances under which the death occurred: natural, accident, intentional self-harm, assault, legal intervention, war, pending investigation, or could not be determined. Follows the WHO death certificate structure.
Cause of death method string (crvs/cause-of-death-method)
The method used to ascertain the cause of death: physician certified, verbal autopsy, coroner, lay reporting, or other. Important for judging data quality, since verbal autopsy and lay reporting are less precise than physician certification.
Medical certifier concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The medical practitioner who certified the cause of death. Distinct from the registrar, who records the death with the civil registration authority.

Evidence

Standard Equivalent Match
OpenCRVS v2 country config (Farajaland) EventDocument (type='death', country-configured) broad
In v2 core, a death is an EventDocument whose type string is the country-configured death event id. All death-specific fields (deceased name, cause of death, manner of death, medical certifier) live in EventConfig.declaration. Farajaland's deathEvent defines the reference implementation.

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