Ethical and legal aspects of the death certificate

Abstract

The paper presents a study on death certificates on typically legal view, with considerations on the legal and regulatory texts that, directly and indirectly, relates to you. It aims at contributing to better understand the legal significance of this document, trying to locate it in the larger context in which it is inserted. Death registry preserves an instrumental nature and, for its recording, it is necessary to submit a death certificate, previously dealt by administrative regulations, now the object of Law 11.976/09. It also aims at valuating this document in the interest of several areas and sectors of the Ministry of Health that use it, pointing out their correlation to the provisions of the new Code of Medical Ethics and other resolutions by the Federal Council of Medicine.