Contrast any differences that may exist between the public/general medical community's understanding of unexplained infant deaths, and the Medical Examiner/Coroner (death investigation) and forensic pathologist's community position.

 

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Contrast in understanding Infant Deaths

Proper knowledge and the mitigation of sudden infant deaths can be enhanced through the united efforts of both the private and public agencies mandated to undertake these catastrophes. Over the past decades, there has been a change in the medicolegal death investigation (MDI) community, which has led to unwanted effects in the death investigation system. The differences in understanding are brought in due to various reasons such as the inadequate provision of better bereavement care, lack of resources, issues to do with social stigma, and the notion that the change in death investigation brings a lot of confusion and lack of clarity when it comes to diagnoses. Another difference arises due to inconsistencies and biasness witnessed between the death certifiers. These issues act as the potential barriers in understanding between the public and the coroner.