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Oklahoma child-death review board urges safe-storage, prenatal safe-sleep education and labeling changes after cohort analysis
Summary
The Child Death Review Board presented cohort-year data showing high rates of preventable deaths in Oklahoma and recommended child-access prevention (safe-storage) measures, prenatal safe-sleep education, strengthened child passenger-safety laws and clearer medical-marijuana packaging to prevent THC ingestion by children.
Liz (program manager for the Child Death Review Board) told the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth that the boardhas completed cohort-year analyses and is making four priority recommendations to reduce child deaths and near deaths.
The board reviewed 299 child-death cases from 2022 and identified motor-vehicle crashes, unsafe-sleep environments and weapon-related injuries as leading causes. Liz said 46 deaths (15 percent) were firearm-related, including unintentional deaths in young children who accessed unsecured guns; 17 suicides (12 of them involving unsecured firearms) and 25 homicides were among the firearm cases. "It's not about politics ... it's about making it as safe as possible so we're not losing as many children as we are," she said.
On firearms, the board…
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