Written by leading child health experts for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), ‘Why Children die’ blames a growing gap between the rich and poor and a lack of targeted public health policies for the increased risk of premature death in this country.
According to the report, an estimated 2,000 additional children, the equivalent of five a day, die in the UK compared to the best performing country Sweden.
The authors claim that in 2012, over 3,000 babies died before the age of one and over 2,000 children and young people died between the ages of one and 19 in this country.
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