The New Crisis of Increasing All-Cause Mortality in US Children and Adolescents

JAMA. 2023 Mar 28;329(12):975-976. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.3517.

Authors

Steven H Woolf¹, Elizabeth R Wolf², Frederick P Rivara^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
² Department of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
³ Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, and Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle.
⁴ Editor, JAMA Network Open.

PMID: 36912829
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.3517

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses increased rates in pediatric mortality by age and cause between 1999 and 2021.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Cause of Death* / trends
Child
Child Mortality* / trends
Humans
Mortality / trends
United States / epidemiology