Health
Panel: 1/5th of child deaths in 2011 preventable
More than one-fifth of all childhood deaths in Mississippi could have been prevented, a state panel says.
The Child Death Review Panel looked at 229 of the 610 child deaths reported statewide in 2011. It found that 134 of those deaths – about 22 percent of the 610 – were preventable.
Seventy-five of the deaths were the result of motor vehicle accidents. […]