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State report: 470 child deaths in 2016; child-death review program highlights prevention campaigns
Summary
The Arkansas infant and child death review program reported 470 child deaths in 2016 (ages 0–17), with 183 cases eligible for local-team review and 141 reviewed; staff highlighted suicide-prevention and Safe Sleep campaigns and urged intercommittee sharing of traffic-safety findings.
Dawn Porter, coordinator of the Arkansas Infant and Child Death Review Program, told the Senate Children and Youth Committee that the program reviewed deaths that occurred in 2016 as part of a fiscal-year reporting cycle and identified prevention priorities including motor-vehicle crashes, infant safe-sleep practices and suicide prevention.
"In 2016, there were 470 child deaths between the ages of 0 to 17," Porter said. Of those, 183 cases were eligible for local-team review and 141 of the eligible cases were reviewed. Porter told members that 39 percent of reviewed…
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