Early life deaths
In the United States, early life deaths between the age of 1 and 18 are common yet it is understudied. The focus on young mortality normally varies with racial and ethnic groups. The ethnic disparities for early deaths are strongly associated with the social-economic status of the parents. Also in the United States, ethnic diversities have greatly increased among the adolescents and the children yet the tragic and preventable deaths have not been deeply analyzed. These early deaths are associated with a variety of causes including homicide and unintentional injury amongst the children and the adolescents.
From the CDC website, it is evident that the leading cause of child mortality in Hispanic and African Americans ethnicity is homicide. The underlying history of poverty and racism had a lot of negative effects on the two ethnicities. In 2017, the rate of homicide among the African Americans and the Hispanics had greatly increased by almost 16 times from the preceding year. Therefore, homicide has been the leading cause of early mortality among black Americans and Hispanics when compared to the Native Americans’ ethnic group. Unintentional injury is another leading cause of child mortality among Hispanic and African American ethnic groups.
In Native American ethnic groups, the leading causes of early life deaths are heart diseases and cancer. From the statistics provided by the National Center of Health Statistics, the Native Americans’ early mortalities are normally contributed by heart complications which are significantly contributed by high rates of obesity among the white children. The white children normally lack adequate physical exercise, therefore, leading to a buildup of cholesterol in the body which in turn results in heart diseases. Despite the increasing numbers of early mortality rates, they can be reduced through lifestyle modification and treating violence as a health concern.