Authors Peter Sidebotham, University of Warwick; James Fraser, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children; Peter Fleming, St Michael's Hospital, Bristol; Martin Ward-Platt, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle; and Richard Hain, Bangor University
Published by The Lancet, September 2014
SUMMARY
The team wanted to study patterns in child mortality, looking at the relationship between age, sex and cause of death. They used publicly available data for England and Wales including death registrations, births and mid-year population estimates from the Office of National Statistics, and reviewed existing research on child and infant mortality in the UK.
The researchers found more than 5,000 infants, children and adolescents die every year in England and Wales. While the number of deaths of 0- to 19-year-olds has fallen in the past 20 years, the most dramatic decline has been in infant deaths (children under a year old), falling from 5,564 in 1990 to 3,154 in 2012. However, in comparison with many other European countries, mortality in the UK remains high.
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