Appointed medical examiners and coroners are less likely than elected coroners to under report suicides, according to a new study. "Mortality statistics are crucial because they tell us not just about how people die, but how they lived," said Joshua Klugman, a Temple sociologist and the study's lead author. "To understand the social determinants of health and well-being at the community level, we need to be confident that area-level mortality statistics are relatively unbiased.