Better public health interventions could improve England’s childhood mortality rate

Better public health interventions that would help improve a new mother’s health before and during pregnancy could improve childhood mortality rates, researchers behind a new report published in The Lancet have said. The researchers looked into the reasons why England and Sweden have different childhood mortality rates. A number of similarities €“ not least that they are two high-income countries with similar levels of economic development and universal healthcare €“ mean the differences between the child mortality rates have puzzled researchers. Comparing more than 3.9 million English births and 1 million Swedish births, the researchers found that deaths in children