OBJECTIVES To review the incidence and characteristics of preventable childhood deaths in an urban population in the UK and to determine whether the excess of preventable deaths seen previously in Asian girls still exists. DESIGN A retrospective survey of childhood deaths from 1996-2002 classified in terms of preventability and compared with a previous study conducted 20 years earlier from 19...

Ingestion of batteries by children became more frequent in recent years, due to the increasing accessibility of electronic toys and devices to children. We report a fatal evolution of battery ingestion in a 2-month-old boy.Lithium battery ingestion is a serious condition with high risk of life-threatening complications in childhood and it can be fatal especially in extreme age, under 6 months. ...

CONTEXT Survivors of childhood cancer are at increased risk of premature mortality compared with the general population, but little is known about the long-term risks of specific causes of death, particularly beyond 25 years from diagnosis at ages when background mortality in the general population starts to increase substantially. OBJECTIVE To investigate long-term cause-specific mortality a...

Background: Public concern about possible increases in childhood cancer incidence in the United States led us to examine recent incidence and mortality patterns. Methods: Cancers diagnosed in 14 540 children under age 15 years from 1975 through 1995 and reported to nine population-based registries in the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program were invest...

OBJECTIVES Coronary heart disease (CHD) and mortality are unevenly distributed between social classes, the lower being disadvantaged compared with the higher. Adverse social circumstances in childhood have been related to an increased risk of CHD and mortality in adulthood. The present purpose was to investigate the effect of differences in social disadvantage in early life on later differences...

INTRODUCTION The household dynamics of childhood mortality in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa is less researched despite the fact that mortality rates are almost two times that of urban settings. This study aimed to investigate the influence of household structure on childhood mortality while controlling for household and maternal characteristics in rural sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS Eight c...

Diabetes mellitus is a serious chronic disorder of childhood and represents a major public health problem. Type 1 diabetes is the predominant form of diabetes during childhood and adolescence, accounting for about 90% of cases, although the growing epidemic of obesity has been associated with an increasing number of cases of childhood-onset type 2 diabetes (Craig et al., 2009; Patterson et al.,...

March 2005 Vol 125 No 2 The Journal of The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health JRSH Health improvement programmes need to be grounded in knowledge of the epidemiology of health problems, their prevalence and incidence, their impact on mortality and quality of life, and their determinants, as well as knowledge about evidence-based solutions.1(pp.11-52) Different approaches to establishing ...

BACKGROUND A 35-country European cystic fibrosis (CF) demographic registry was developed to compare outcomes (EuroCareCF EC-FP6). METHODS We applied methods that had successfully created country-specific registries inviting wide participation to obtain consent and collate demographic and CFTR genotype data. RESULTS Among 29,095 patients, a widely different country-specific prevalence of chi...