ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2005
Changing patterns of childhood mortality in Wolverhampton.
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- The impact of pre and perinatal lifestyle factors on child long term health and social outcomes: a systematic review.Health economics review · 2018Review
- A wicked problem: early childhood safety in the dynamic, interactive environment of home.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Article
- PM10 air pollution exposure during pregnancy and term low birth weight in Allegheny County, PA, 1994-2000.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2011Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo review the incidence and characteristics of preventable childhood deaths in an urban population in the UK and to determine whether the excess of preventable deaths seen previously in Asian girls still exists.
designA retrospective survey of childhood deaths from 1996-2002 classified in terms of preventability and compared with a previous study conducted 20 years earlier from 1976-82.
settingThe city of Wolverhampton in the UK.
main outcome measuresDeaths from all causes in children under the age of 5 years.
resultsThere has been a reduction in the number of deaths in all age groups and from all causes. The postneonatal mortality rate fell from 6.5/1000 in 1976 to 3.1/1000 live births in 2002 largely because of the fall in the numbers of deaths caused by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Preventable deaths are still associated with low birth weight (p<0.001) and poverty (unemployment and overcrowding in the earlier study (p<0.05) and with the Townsend score in this study (p<0.02)). There were fewer deaths among Asians and no female excess. There was a new category not seen in the previous study, deaths caused by homicide. The death rate for homicide in the first year of life was much higher in Wolverhampton (18.7/100,000) than in England and Wales (4.6/100,000).
conclusionsLow birth weight and adverse socioeconomic conditions remain important factors associated with preventable deaths. There is no longer an increased risk of preventable death in Asian girls. The number of non-accidental deaths is a major cause for concern.
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