methods for gathering medical mortality statistics are pretty biased, if not completely bonkers.
Would you be willing to expand on this?
ETA: Apparently a new WHO recommendation for filling death certificates was introduced in 2005-2006 and this caused a significant drop in pneumonia mortality in Finland.
I'm not entirely sure if it works this way in the whole EU, but it probably does. It's more complicated than what I explain below, but it's the big picture that matters.
The most common way to record mortality statistics is that the doctor who was treating the patient fills a death certificate. There are three types of causes of death that can be recorded in a death certificate. There are i...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.