Federal Funding For Research On The Leading Causes Of Death Among Children And Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Firearm injuries are the second-leading cause of death for US children and adolescents (ages 1-18). This analysis quantified the federal dollars granted to research for the leading US causes of death for this age group in 2008-17. Several federal data sources were queried. On average, in the study period, $88 million per year was granted to research motor vehicle crashes, the leading cause of death in this age group. Cancer, the third-leading cause of mortality, received $335 million per year. In contrast, $12 million-only thirty-two grants, averaging $597 in research dollars per death-went to firearm injury prevention research among children and adolescents. According to a regression analysis, funding for pediatric firearm injury prevention was only 3.3 percent of what would be predicted

SUBMITTER: Cunningham RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7039655 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature