Children Safer in City Than Other U.S. Locales
By Special to the Sun | May 30, 2007
New York City children are safer than their counterparts in the rest of the country, according to a report released yesterday by the city's Child Fatality Review Team. Between 2001 and 2005, the death rate among city children was 15 per 100,000 compared to the national rate of 21 per 100,000, the team reported. The team, which studied death certificates of children between ages 1 and 12, credited the lower fatality rate to fewer motor vehicle-related deaths in the city. "When you look at child injury fatalities in New York City, we have a good news story," the deputy commissioner for epidemiology at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and chair of the review team, Lorna Thorpe, said.
