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  1. Living in temporary accommodation has contributed to the deaths of 104 children in England in the past six years, 76 of whom were under the age of one, according to data.

    Statistics also show there were 64 stillbirths and 27 neonatal deaths involving mothers living in temporary accommodation (TA) in the UK in 2024.

    #Homelessness #UKPolitics #Children #ChildMortality

    theguardian.com/society/2026/a

  2. Just a sad tragedy - after decades of progress, this is where we are now. It might not feel obvious day to day, but rising inequality hits all of us eventually. #GlobalHealth #ChildMortality #PublicHealth #Crisis #USPol

    For the First Time This Centur...

  3. You are right, an astonishing graph about how child mortality dropped.

    But in the USA they will now reverse the trend. As the article says: child mortality is now such an 'uncommon experience that people have forgotten and want to ban vaccines.'

    The USA will see many more children and parents suffering.

    @kottke
    #ChildMortality #Vaccines #USA

  4. I learned something new at a community event in Sunnyvale this morning: around 25 years ago, firearms surpassed motor vehicles as the leading killer of children and teens in the USA.

    #Guns #ChildMortality

  5. John Amato raises alarming concerns about a report from The Lancet Medical Journal. Significant funding cuts to USAID under the Trump administration could lead to 14 million additional deaths by 2030, with 4.5 million of those among children under five. The importance of USAID's initiatives can't be overstated, having previously prevented over 91 million deaths. Discover the full implications here: crooksandliars.com/2025/07/tru #USAID #Lancet #PublicHealth #TrumpAdministration #ChildMortality #GlobalHealth

  6. "Child mortality increases when democracy declines," write Katherine Hoops, Phillip Cohen, Lee Goeddel, and Caroline Fredrickson of ‪@jhu.edu. Learn how increases in democracy saves children's lives in this timely open-access article. #Democracy #ChildMortality www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

  7. > With the installation of 181 public mother wait homes where rural women spend the last two weeks of their pregnancies, maternal mortality has dropped by 67.7% and child mortality by 58.6% in 17 years.

    #ChildMortality #MaternalMortality reminded me of #Semmelweis and got me guessing that #PovertyReduction deserves as much attention as Science, Scientific breaktrhoughs, or The Progress of Science, for lowering #MortalityRates ...

  8. Discover how religious affiliation impacted child mortality in early 20th-century Ireland. A new study by Lucia Pozzi, Francesco Scalone, Michail Raftakis, and Liam Kennedy reveals significant differences among denominations. #ChildMortality #Ireland1911 #History
    demographic-research.org/artic

  9. Whilst researching for a client over the weekend came across one of their ancestors who accordingly to 1911 census had 13 of which 10 were no longer alive, so far I have discovered 8 of the 13, including those who survived. Two of the deceased children were never named a both birth and death register entries only give surname. Such a tragic story to tell my client.

    #Genealogy #childmortality

  10. Centre suspends chief of institute that prepares family health survey

    International Institute for Population Sciences Director KS James had reportedly been asked to quit as the government had reservations about some data sets.

    The Wire reported that some of the findings of the National Family Health Survey-5 were at odds with claims made by the Narendra Modi government. The survey has punched holes in the prime minister’s claims of the country being open defecation free.

    #IIPS #FamilyHealthSurvey #KSJames #data #welfare #nutrition #ChildMortality #SwachhBharat #OpenDefecation #BJP #UnionGovt #dissent #india

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  11. Centre suspends chief of institute that prepares family health survey

    International Institute for Population Sciences Director KS James had reportedly been asked to quit as the government had reservations about some data sets.

    The Wire reported that some of the findings of the National Family Health Survey-5 were at odds with claims made by the Narendra Modi government. The survey has punched holes in the prime minister’s claims of the country being open defecation free.

    #IIPS #FamilyHealthSurvey #KSJames #data #welfare #nutrition #ChildMortality #SwachhBharat #OpenDefecation #BJP #UnionGovt #dissent #india

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  12. Centre suspends chief of institute that prepares family health survey

    International Institute for Population Sciences Director KS James had reportedly been asked to quit as the government had reservations about some data sets.

    The Wire reported that some of the findings of the National Family Health Survey-5 were at odds with claims made by the Narendra Modi government. The survey has punched holes in the prime minister’s claims of the country being open defecation free.

    #IIPS #FamilyHealthSurvey #KSJames #data #welfare #nutrition #ChildMortality #SwachhBharat #OpenDefecation #BJP #UnionGovt #dissent #india

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  13. Centre suspends chief of institute that prepares family health survey

    International Institute for Population Sciences Director KS James had reportedly been asked to quit as the government had reservations about some data sets.

    The Wire reported that some of the findings of the National Family Health Survey-5 were at odds with claims made by the Narendra Modi government. The survey has punched holes in the prime minister’s claims of the country being open defecation free.

    #IIPS #FamilyHealthSurvey #KSJames #data #welfare #nutrition #ChildMortality #SwachhBharat #OpenDefecation #BJP #UnionGovt #dissent #india

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  14. Gun and car accident deaths explain the higher level of mortality among children and youth (under age 24) in the US south over past 50 years than peers living elsewhere.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/323178

    @uncpopcenter #NICHDImpact #Mortality #ChildMortality #South #Safety #FirearmDeaths #CarAccidents

  15. CW: Child mortality

    “The poorer the children, the higher the risk of mortality, but nothing’s been done. We’re in a high-income country and this is on our doorstep. ... We talk about parental neglect a lot … but I see this as societal neglect.”
    -- Prof Monica Lakhanpaul, University College London, on a study in JAMA Network Open by Prof Karen Luyt, University of Bristol.

    theguardian.com/society/2023/j

    #ChildMortality #ChildDeaths #Poverty #England #Inequality #JAMANetworkOpen #UniversityOfBristol #UKpol