Orphanhood and caregiver death among children in the United States by all-cause mortality, 2000-2021

This repository contains the data for the analyses presented in the paper `Orphanhood and caregiver death among children in the United States by all-cause mortality, 2000-2021' by A. Villaveces, Y. Chen et al. available in the pre-print https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.25.24304835v1 We thank the Global Reference Group for Children In Crisis and especially Prof. Chris Desmond for his comments on early versions of this work, and reviewers at the CDC and NCHS especially Dr. Robert Anderson for his helpful suggestions. We thank the Imperial College Research Computing Service (https://doi.org/10.14469/ hpc/2232) for providing the computational resources to perform this study, and Zulip for sponsoring team communications through the Zulip Cloud Standard chat app. This study was supported by the Oak Foundation (to LC, LS); the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (to LC); the Moderna Charitable Foundation (to HJTU, OR); the World Health Organization (to SF); the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (EP/V002910/2 to SF); the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning at Imperial College London and Oxford University (EP/S023151/1 to A. Gandy) and the Imperial College London President’s PhD Scholarship fund (to YC); Imperial College London Undergraduate Research Bursaries (to LG, VKM); and London Mathematical Society Undergraduate Research Bursary (URB-2023-86 to DW). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. All analysis code is available from https://github.com/MLGlobalHealth/orphanhood-caregiver-death-in-US-from-all-causes-of-mortality.