Excess US Deaths Attributable to High All-Cause Mortality Rates Among Youths Aged 0 to 19 Years

Steven H Woolf; Derek A Chapman

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.1869

Excess US Deaths Attributable to High All-Cause Mortality Rates Among Youths Aged 0 to 19 Years

JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Sep 1;178(9):942-944. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.1869.

Authors

Steven H Woolf¹, Derek A Chapman²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
² Department of Epidemiology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Population Health, Richmond.

PMID: 38949828
PMCID: PMC11217885 (available on 2025-07-01)
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.1869

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study compares US mortality rates among youths aged 0 to 19 years with rates in 16 high-income countries, calculates excess deaths from 1999 to 2019, and examines temporal trends through 2021.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Cause of Death* / trends
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Mortality / trends
United States / epidemiology
Young Adult