Question

We often take for granted the importance of a birth certificate and a death certificate. Why are these two documents so important, especially in the healthcare field, and why is their importance often underestimated?

Answer 1

Answer: The birth certificate and death certificate are important as it provides the specific information of the person. The importance of birth certificate includes the rights of the child. Further more important indulgence occurs for the child in future. So, birth certificate is important. The death certificate reveals that the person is died on the mentioned date, time and year which is written on the death certificate. These certificates are important in healthcare field as it provides information regarding the birth rate as well as the mortality rates. It also gives information that the person died due to diseased condition, the intervention can be done to know the particular reason of the death. It also shows the data in which the patient died due to which illness or disease. These information in the healthcare enables the healthcare professionals to work more on the patient care system. And hence providing quality of care to the patients to improve the health conditions.

The importance of the birth and death certificate is often underestimated because people do not know about the importance of these documents. There is lack of awareness among people regarding this documents.