In law, medicine, and statistics,<unk>  is an official determination of conditions resulting in a human's<unk> , which may be recorded on a<unk>  certificate. A<unk>  is determined by a medical examiner. The<unk>  is a specific disease or injury, in contrast to the manner of<unk>  which is a small number of categories like "natural", "accident", "suicide", and "homicide", which have different legal implications. International Classification of Disease (ICD)<unk> es are often used to record manner and<unk>  in a systematic way that makes it easy to compile statistics and more feasible to compare events across jurisdictions.
Cause of death
Head injury criterion
Disease cluster
Cancer cluster
Severity of illness
Risk factor
Anatomy of an Epidemic
Infection rate