Federally funded, comprehensive child fatality review programs should be implemented in order to reduce the high rate of preventable deaths that occur during childhood, Arizona researchers maintain in the July issue of Pediatrics.
Nearly one third of deaths occurring among children under age 18 were tragedies that might have been avoided, according to Dr. William Marshall, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, and associates. “Many child deaths are preventable,” Dr. Marshall told Reuters Health. “There are things that communities can do to try to reduce child mortality.”
However, far more comprehensive data collection than is the current norm in most states is required, according to investigators in the Arizona Child Fatality Review Program (ACFRP). They used death certificates, hospital records, autopsy and police reports, as well as child protective services records, to review 4806 cases of children who died in Arizona from 1995 to 1999.
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