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Minnesota Death Records

The process and systems used by Minnesota to record deaths by age and ethnicity, including investigations by medical examiners/coroners and the use of state vital records and surveillance systems.

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How have Minnesota coroners and public health agencies recorded deaths by ethnicity and age in recent years?

records through a combination of county medical examiners/coroners (ME/C) investigations, state vital records maintained by the , and specialized surveillance systems that merge those sources; MDH pub...

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How can researchers obtain ethnicity- or ancestry-specific mortality data from the Minnesota Department of Health?

Researchers seeking ethnicity- or ancestry-specific mortality data from the Department of Health (MDH) should first exhaust the agency’s public dashboards and downloadable mortality tables, then pursu...