Archives of Disease in Childhood

Child death in the emergency department: experience from a 10-year retrospective review

Objective To describe the demographic characteristics, causes and temporal patterns of child deaths occurring in a paediatric ...
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Unsafe care leading cause of child mortality, WHO warns

The World Health Organisation on Wednesday said unsafe care is a leading contributor to child mortality and long-term disability, especially in the early stages of life. WHO said this in an update ...
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A Surprising Thing Is Behind the Leading Cause of Death in Teens

Losing a child is every parent's worst nightmare. There are few things that can compare, and it's always a devastating loss, no matter how it happens or the age of the child. But, according to data ...
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Global Burden of Disease study: Mortality declines, but youth deaths and health inequities rise

Global mortality rates are falling, but not among youths and young adults, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet today and presented at the World Health ...
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Cause-specific excess mortality in rural India during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020–2023: longitudinal analyses of deaths in 0.2 million rural health facilities

Objective India had an estimated three to five million excess deaths from causes attributable to SARS-CoV-2 during 2020–2021, ...