Addressing ethnic and socio-economic inequalities in child mortality in the UK

In The Lancet Public Health, Isobel Ward and colleagues1 used linked longitudinal data for 3 million children born in England and Wales to assess ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in neonatal and child deaths. By linking census data and birth and death registrations over a 10-year period, they constructed birth cohorts and used rich census data to evaluate inequalities in mortality in the neonatal period and for children (>28 days to 10 years) based on ethnicity, maternal education, and occupational social class.