Why a new report on child mortality is historic, encouraging - NPR
Mar 13, 2024 — Child mortality has hit a historic low around the world — fewer then 5 million deaths a year. But experts believe that millions more could be saved by relatively cheap, simple interventions.
Children are dying at the highest rate in 13 years - USAFacts
Jun 13, 2023 — Child and teen deaths due to poisoning and drug overdoses nearly doubled during the pandemic. Between 2019 and 2021, drug overdoses surpassed cancer as the third most-common cause of death amongst US children and teens. Every race and ethnicity had an increase in overdose deaths in 2021.
These Children Were Beaten to Death. Could They Have Been …
Oct 26, 2021 — All three children were beaten to death at home in the closing weeks of this summer. Their deaths were among a string of fatalities involving children who were the subject of warnings to...
Widening Racial Disparities Underlie Rise in Child Deaths in the U.S.
May 4, 2024 — Between 2014 and 2020, the death rates for Black children and teenagers rose by about 37 percent, and for Native American youths by about by about 22 percent — compared with less than 5 percent...
How DCFS failures led up to Noah Cuatro's child abuse, death
Aug 19, 2021 — An investigation by the Los Angeles Times and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley found that errors, misjudgments and bureaucratic conflict within the child welfare system —...
U.N. report has good and dire news about child deaths. What's the ... - NPR
Jan 10, 2023 — A new U.N. report shares data points about the world's child mortality rate. We interviewed a doctor in Nigeria — where rates of child death are among the world's highest — to offer his...
Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022 – UN report
Mar 13, 2024 — The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
Crib videos offer clue to mysterious child deaths, showing ... - NBC News
Jan 4, 2024 — A small new study offers the first direct evidence of a seizure link to sudden unexplained death in childhood. The last bedtime of 17-month-old Hayden Fell’s life was heartbreakingly normal ...
Mayor Releases Child Fatality Review Report, Invests in Systemic …
Jan 21, 2022 — Key findings from the Child Fatality Review Report include: Homicide is the leading cause of child fatality, with 45 youth ages seven to 17 killed by a non-relative third party and 24 children from birth to age seven killed by a parent or caregiver;
A child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021 – UN report
Jan 10, 2023 — NEW YORK/GENEVA/WASHINGTON D.C., 10 January 2023 – An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).