International nomenclature of causes of death

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The International Nomenclature of Causes of Death (also: Bertillon Classification ), in English International List of Causes of Death ( ICD ), was a medical statistical project by the head of the Statistical Office of Paris, Jacques Bertillon and William Farr , “a really valid one for all countries To create a system with a general nomenclature of causes of death ”. The first edition was published in 1893. Mortality statistics were collected from all countries, "whereby the resulting nomenclature was rapidly spread and applied, so that the fifth revision was already available in 1938." "A mixed commission revised the international nomenclature of causes of death in 1929 and 1938 and created 3 lists, one with 200 categories , an intermediate list with 87 headings and an abridged list with 44 headings ”. In 1948 a "leap in development from a pure nomenclature (naming) to a nosology (classification of diseases)" was achieved. The sixth revision was submitted by the World Health Organization ; it contained "for the first time a classification of mental illnesses called Mental, Psychoneurotic and Personality Disorders ".

The Bertillon classification formed the basis for the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems .

Web links

  • Report on the discussion on nomenclature at the third meeting of the international congress for statistics, in Vienna, in September 1857, pp. 87–97 (Google book search )

literature

  • Siegfried Rosenfeld : The international nomenclature of the causes of death. In: Social Practice. E. Francke, Volume 9, No. 23.
  • Siegfried Rosenfeld: The international nomenclature of the causes of death. SMS. NF. Volume 5, 1900, pp. 128ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Nadine Rapold: The Mentally Ill - On the Change in View of Psychiatric Diseases. Thesis. Self-published, 2008, p. 145.
  2. ↑ Article in the Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infectious Diseases and Hygiene , Volume 166.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Wikipedia has an article on William Farr