Historical International Classification for Diseases

Lecturers: prof. Alice Reid, University of Cambridge, dr. Mayra Murkens, University of Groningen

Content: The recently launched ICD10h coding system is designed to support historical demographers and historians in coding historical causes of death. Widespread adoption of this system across diverse countries and linguistic contexts will significantly enhance the comparability of research on historical cause-specific mortality patterns, while preserving the integrity of the historical context. With the coding manual and the English historical causes of death strings file, researchers can begin coding causes of death. However, this process also involves tidying, parsing, and determining primary causes of death.

You can find the presentation in .pdf here.