“MAke America Healthy Again ” report Detail of US health challenge. About 90% of the highest rate is intended, vaccine health issues, 10% issues of social and economic systems driving most of the economic health problems.
But I was surprised to be more than a great depreciation of the two largest killers of American children. American children don’t just can’t heal. they more to die In the first 19 years of life due to guns – homicides and suicidal – or in a traffic accident than children in comparison to countries. How to write a whole report without mentioning these reasons, and how unique is the US in the severity of disability and death that they cause?
Pick up guns. In 2020, gun injuries overtooked by the vehicle crash as the primary cause of death in the US for children and teenagers. from 2019 to 2021There are 23% increase in American gun deaths at all ages, while the deaths of children in children and teens rose to 50% at the same time. Per 100,000 people, the US in 2019 nearly 100 times many gun homicides as Britain. Even countries such as Canada, who ranked the top 10 top 10 of civilian civil possessions, Seven times smaller gun homicides than in the US, and about half of the many suicides involving guns – both adjusted for population. Outliers to more positive ends include J’Tan and South Korea, with almost gun-related deaths every year. For four years between 2020 and 2024, the US Averaged is near Two mass shooting a day. They are always taking place that the media is always not reporting it. It’s not news. Only everyday life.
Unlike countries As in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Serbia and Colombia – to select some examples – especially political handguns, remained in political gridlock. The consequence is a growing feeling of despair, contentment and even acceptance as children die in shooting after shooting. School shooting is one of the most likely ways for a child to die in the US, though firearms are not mentioned in “make America healthy” again.
The second leading cause of death for American children is road traffic accidents. on 202143,000 people died in the US on road crashes compared to less than 3,000 people in Japan. Adjusted for the population, the US rate is 12.7 dead per 100,000 people against 2.24 in Japan. This difference is not random: The size of the vehicle is playing a large feature. Japan’s best motor vehicle, a kind of compact known as Kei Car, weighs about 1,100kg and the 3.3m in length. The US compares it, where the most famous car (a pickup truck) is 2,900kg and 5.8m long. This is the impact of road safety. A study of Journal of Safety Research It is known that children are eight times more likely to be killed in a collision with a SUV than they are in a crash in a standard vehicle. It’s not just about the size and weight of these cars but also how much perspective is restrained, especially with children to be close to the vehicle.
Recognizing the main causes of child malfunction and death is one step. Traffic deaths and US roads usually make them sometimes seem to be lost in the background. But data shows the difference between the US and other countries of the role of public health agencies such as RFK JR’s that these issues are more visible. Of course, trying to find solutions, especially seeing that each individual freedoms to own a gun or driving any vehicle they want, the more difficult. There are policy measures that can be obtained, As shown in Japan, Britain and other countries with primary health and well-being.
If the US government wants to “make America healthy too”, it must first recognize the cruel injury to the gun and children. If not facing these head realities – and there is no policy change system – no visions are healthier we can succeed. Then, you can be healthy only when you are alive.
The Prof Devi Sridhar Chair in the Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, and the author of How to never die (soon)
