US pediatric mortality rate surpassed peer nations decades ago

BOSTON — The mortality disadvantage among children in the United States has existed for more than 50 years, according to recent findings — much longer than experts previously thought. In a previous JAMA study, Lauren Koenigsberg and colleagues found that children in the U.S. had a greater risk for death than children in peer nations between 2007 and 2023. A new study Koenigsberg presented at the