BACKGROUND Investigation of causes of death can help inform intervention policy aimed at reducing preventable mortality. OBJECTIVES To assess mortality causes and trends over time and identify target groups with excessive mortality rates among Israeli youth aged 10-24, in order to formulate an intervention policy for prevention of adolescent mortality. METHODS Mortality data for Israeli res...

Infant mortality is defined as the death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate (IMR) measures this occurrence per 1,000 live births. In addition to being a key marker of maternal and child health, the IMR has been called the most sensitive indicator of overall societal health. In the United States, substantial progress has been made over the last 50 years in r...

The Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference held in Mexico City in October 2015 marks an important watershed in global efforts to reduce the burden of preventable maternal and newborn deaths, bringing together—as it did—what have been two fairly distinct technical communities (maternal and newborn) to tackle their shared challenges in a post-Millennium Development Goal era. With this broadeni...

OBJECTIVE To describe the cause of death together with emergency department presentations and hospital admissions in the last year of life of people with intellectual disability. METHOD A retrospective matched cohort study using de-identified linked data of people aged 20 years or over, with and without intellectual disability who died during 2009 to 2013 in Western Australia. Emergency depar...

BACKGROUND Research concerning suicide and homicide in North Carolina is needed so that medical providers and others who develop and implement preventive and therapeutic interventions related to violence have an empirical base from which to work. METHODS North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System data composed of death certificates, medical examiner reports, and law enforcement reports wer...

Each year, complications related to unsafe abortion account for at least one in seven maternal deaths worldwide. Nearly all of these deaths occur in developing countries and most are preventable. The authors argue that to prevent abortion-related deaths, all women must have access to safe abortion and contraceptive services, and they discuss the strategies used to prevent abortion-related death...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common incident cancer and the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the United States. The disease is largely preventable with screening. In the United States, colorectal cancer mortality is higher among African Americans than among whites, possibly because of inequalities in the delivery of screening, diagnostic, and therapeutic regimens (1,2)...

Choking, suffocation, and strangulation cause serious unintentional injuries in children and are leading causes of unintentional death in infants and toddlers. Nearly all choking, suffocation and strangulation deaths and injuries are preventable. The present statement reviews definitions, epidemiology and effective prevention strategies for these injuries. Recommendations that combine approache...

A detailed psychosocial study was made of all deaths in babies aged between 8 days and 2 years in Sheffield over two years. An identical assessment was made of a group of control children matched for age. Sixty five children who died and 102 controls were studied. Each index and control child was assessed for 13 potentially adverse social and family factors. The deaths were classified into caus...

OBJECTIVE Varicella has been preventable by vaccination in the United States since 1995. Previous studies reported a 66% decline in mortality rate during the first 6 years of the program. Since then, vaccination coverage has increased substantially. We updated the analysis of US varicella mortality for 2002-2007 and assessed the impact of the first 12 years of the US varicella vaccination progr...