Cuyahoga County Health and Child Experts Discuss Rise in Child Deaths and Prevention Efforts: New data shows increase in infant deaths, abuse and neglect deaths and homicides.
December 10 2024
Newly released data for 2023 shows a concerning increase in deaths of children ages 0-18. The data from the Cuyahoga County Child Fatality Review Board highlights trends in child deaths and raises awareness of preventable child fatalities.
Most notably, child deaths increased by 25% from data collected in 2022. There were increases in infant deaths, abuse and neglect deaths, and homicides. The Child Mortality Rate in Cuyahoga County of 75.9 is 25% higher than the State of Ohio and 41% higher than the United States.
Leaders from across the County gathered at the University Hospitals Rainbow Ahuja Center for Women and Children in Cleveland to bring attention to this concerning data, highlight efforts underway to prevent future deaths, and ask for the community’s help to address underlying issues leading to child deaths.
Cuyahoga County’s Child Fatality Review Board brings together professionals from various fields, including healthcare, law enforcement, social services, and public health, to review the causes and circumstances surrounding a child’s death. By learning the story of the child’s life, and circumstances of their death, the Child Fatality Review Board aims to uncover any challenges faced by the child, any systems they interacted with, and the risk factors that may have contributed to their death. Central to this is the attempt to spot where interventions and risk reduction could have combined to prevent the death.
View the full data dashboard on the Cuyahoga County Board of Health website.
Read an Executive Summary of the data on the Invest in Children website.
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