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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Friday, December 27, 2019**

IN THE JOURNAL

RURAL HEALTH

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Declines In Pediatric Mortality Fall Short For Rural US Children

By Janice Probst, Whitney Zahnd, and Charity Breneman

While pediatric death rates have declined nationally, disparities remain
for some groups of children. Janice Probst and coauthors analyzed
mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
finding that rural youth ages 0-19 were more likely than urban youth
to die during childhood throughout the period from 1999 through 2017. In
addition, while the death rate for rural children dropped 19 percent
between 1999 and 2017, from 77.6 per 100,000 children to 62.9 per
100,000, the decline among urban children was significantly greater-a
decrease of 24 percent, from 66.4 per 100,000 to 50.2 per 100,000. Among
rural children, non-Hispanic black infants and American Indian/Alaska
Native children were particularly at risk. Read More >>

REQUEST FOR ABSTRACTS-Children's Health

**Health Affairs** is planning a theme issue on Children's Health, to
be published in October 2020.  We thank Nemours for its generous
support of this issue.

We invite all interested authors to submit abstracts for consideration
for this issue. Editors will review the abstracts and, for those that
best fit our vision and goals for the issue, invite authors to submit
full papers for consideration.

In order to be considered, abstracts must be submitted no later than
11:59 PM

**Eastern time**,

**December 29, 2019**. We regret that we will not be able to consider
any abstracts submitted after that date. Abstracts must be submitted via
our abstract submission portal
-abstracts
submitted via other channels will not be considered.

More information here

Preparation and formatting guidelines

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A CLOSER LOOK-Ending Preventable Child And Maternal Deaths

Ending preventable child and maternal deaths (EPCMD) by 2035 is one of
the US Agency for International Development's three global health
priorities. According to a Health Affairs Blog post, enhancing efforts
to prevent tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure

would close a critical gap in this strategy because prematurity, low
birth weight, and other causes of death could be reduced by elimination
of smoke exposure.

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