The Major Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States
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The Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents This report details the 10 leading causes for the 20,360 deaths of children and adolescents in the United States in 2016. The analysis also includes ...
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After years of decline, rates of adolescent and young adult mortality have increased in the past decade, led by suicides, drug overdoses, and shootings, much of which receives abundant (social) media coverage.
“After years of decline, rates of adolescent and young adult mortality have increased in the past decade, led by suicides, drug overdoses, and shootings, much of which receives abundant (social) media coverage [128, 129].”
From Not so terrifying after all? A set of failed replications of the mortality salience effects of Terror Management Theory (2023) · cites this paper as [129]
The Time Trends section reports recent increases in firearm homicide, firearm and nonfirearm suicide, and drug-overdose deaths among U.S. children and adolescents. It does not establish that overall mortality rose across the past decade, does not study young adults beyond age 19, and does not discuss social-media coverage. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe earlier analysis, using data through 2016, found that firearm-related injuries ranked second to motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death for children and adolescents aged 1 to 19.
“The previous analysis, which examined data through 2016, showed that firearm-related injuries were second only to motor vehicle crashes (both traffic-related and nontraffic-related) as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents, defined as persons 1 to 19 years of age.4”
From Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States (2022) · cites this paper as [4]
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- Authors
- Cunningham, R. M., Walton, M. A., & Carter, P. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2018-12-20
- Volume
- 379
- Issue
- 25
- Pages
- 2468-2475
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- PMC
- PMC6637963
- OpenAlex
- W2903767612
- Cited by
- 748
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 60 · 2025: 96 · 2024: 108 · 2023: 99 · 2022: 120 · 2021: 131 · 2020: 85 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 63.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- World Health Organization
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U01CE002698)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (K23DA039341)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD087149)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Child and Adolescent Health
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Keywords
- child mortality, adolescent mortality, leading causes of death, causes of death
- MeSH terms
- Accidents, Traffic, Adolescent, Age Factors, Cause of Death, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Suicide, United States, Wounds and Injuries, Wounds, Gunshot, Young Adult
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