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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Friday, December 27, 2019
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IN THE JOURNAL
RURAL HEALTH
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 >>
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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.
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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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