The New Crisis of Increasing All-Cause Mortality in US Children and Adolescents

Steven H Woolf¹, Elizabeth R Wolf², Frederick P Rivara^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
² Department of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
³ Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, and Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle.
⁴ Editor, JAMA Network Open.

Steven H Woolf et al. JAMA. 2023.

. 2023 Mar 28;329(12):975-976.

doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.3517.

Steven H Woolf¹, Elizabeth R Wolf², Frederick P Rivara^{3

4}

¹ Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
² Department of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond.
³ Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, and Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle.
⁴ Editor, JAMA Network Open.

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses increased rates in pediatric mortality by age and cause between 1999 and 2021.

Increasing All-Cause Mortality in US Children and Adolescents.
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