{"id":517,"date":"2011-05-02T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T01:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rch.org.au\/blogs\/cah\/?p=517"},"modified":"2012-04-10T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:09:04","slug":"prof-george-patton-lancet-article-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2011\/05\/02\/prof-george-patton-lancet-article-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof George Patton Lancet article 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2011\/05\/02\/prof-george-patton-lancet-article-2011\/photo-george\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-524\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2011\/05\/photo-george-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>In recent decades global attention has focused on the health of children younger than 5 years.\u00a0 The health of adolescents has attracted relatively little attention.\u00a0 In this context, the paper below\u00a0paper examined a question of the relative gains in health that younger children have seen compared to adolescents over the last half century.\u00a0 Working with colleagues in London and with WHO Geneva, we tracked rates and causes of death in fifty countries in children and young people aged 1\u201324 years. There were great declines in death rates in younger children but comparatively small declines in those for older adolescents and young adults.\u00a0 The results suggest there has been a reversal of traditional mortality patterns across childhood and adolescents with the highest death rates now in the late teens and early twenties.<\/p>\n<p>For more information read the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2011\/05\/Prof_Patton_Lancet_article.pdf\">Lancet_article<\/a>\u00a0(PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet article on mortality trends in children and young people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}