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General description

CépiDc (Centre d'épidémiologie sur les causes médicales de décès) is a French national institute responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data on medical causes of death. Managed by the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), CépiDc provides comprehensive mortality statistics that are crucial for public health research, policy-making, and epidemiological studies.

Inserm CépiDc has been working to produce annual national statistics on medical causes of death since 1968. The data on the certificate and the death bulletin are used to calculate this statistic and includes information on the underlying causes of death, demographic details, and trends over time.

Finally, epidemiological data on the causes of death or sociospatial disparities are regularly produced by the CépiDC. In addition to responding to requests for specific surveys, CépiDc takes part in methodological advances.

Indicators:

• Numbers and standardized rates of cancer deaths.
• Premature cancer-related deaths (before age 65).
• Cancer-related deaths linked to a risk factor (alcohol, tobacco).

Benefits

• Policy Development: Provides essential data for the development and evaluation of health policies and prevention programs.
• Public Health Monitoring: Supports the monitoring of public health by providing crucial information on mortality rates and causes, helping to identify areas requiring health interventions.
• Epidemiological Research: Facilitates studies on the epidemiology of diseases, allowing for the identification of risk factors and the impact of public health initiatives on mortality.
• Comprehensive Mortality Data: Offers extensive data on causes of death, aiding researchers in understanding mortality patterns and trends in France.

Categories

• Temporal Trends: Data on mortality trends over time, allowing for the analysis of changes in mortality patterns.
• Causes of Death: Data on underlying and contributing causes of death, classified by disease, condition, and external factors.
• Demographic Data: Information on age, gender, place of residence, and other demographic variables.
• Geographical Data: Information on regional variations in mortality rates and causes of death.

Limitations

• Data Delays: There may be delays in data reporting and availability, affecting the timeliness of analyses.
• Data Completeness: Variations in the completeness and accuracy of death certificates can impact data quality.
• Access Restrictions: Some detailed data may have access restrictions due to privacy and confidentiality concerns.

Publications

• ECSTRA-INSERM@ CLEF eHealth2016-task 2: ICD10 code extraction from death certificates
• Suicide and All-Cause Mortality Within 1 Year After a Suicide Attempt in the VigilanS Cohort
• Transmission of death certificates to CepiDc-Inserm related to suspicious deaths, in France, since 2000
• Number of deaths among HIV-infected adults in France in 2000, three-source capture–recapture estimation
• Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide
• Combining deep neural networks, a rule-based expert system and targeted manual coding for ICD-10 coding causes of death of French death certificates from 2018 to 2019

Data Access

Data from Inserm CépiDc is publicly available and can be accessed at Inserm CépiDc Data