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[ 19 ] Dying Young in the United States
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Published:April 2020
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on child mortality. Child mortality is declining worldwide, according to a half-century’s worth of data from the Human Mortality Database and the World Health Organization (WHO). Since the 1980s, however, the United States has had higher rates of mortality for kids aged 0 to 19, compared to other wealthy Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations. In 2013, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ranked the health and safety of children in the United States 25th out of 29 developed countries. Meanwhile, according to a 2018 Health Affairs study, from 2001 to 2010, the risk of death in the United States compared to peer nations was 76% greater for infants and 57% greater for children and youth age 1 to 19. In that same time frame, American teens age 15 to 19 were 82 times likelier to die from gun-related homicide. As such, US policymakers need to focus on preventing child mortality by preventing the largest contributors to this challenge: perinatal deaths, car accidents, and firearm assaults.
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