America lost 20,360 children and teens in 2016 -- 60 percent of them to preventable injuries, a new University of Michigan study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows. Dr. Rebecca Cunningham explains the findings.
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More than 4,000 children and teens in 2016 died in motor vehicle crashes, though prevention efforts and better trauma care have cut the death rate of young people from such crashes in half in less than two decades.
Meanwhile, firearms -- the number two cause of death in youth – claimed the lives of more than 3,140 children and teens in 2016.
That’s about eight children a day. Unlike vehicle crashes, the rate of firearm-related death for those aged 1 to 19 years has stayed around the same for nearly the past two decades.
The team behind the report, from the U-M Injury Prevention Center, also helps lead the Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens Consortium, www.childfirearmsafety.org
NEJM DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr1804754 [ Ссылка ]
