Us Children’s Health deteriorated over 17 years, according to a study

The physical and mental health of American children has decreased in the past 17 years, according to a new study.

The results, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Children’s trends in children’s health in the United States from 2007 to 2023.

“The surprising part of the study was not with a single statistic; is that there are 170 indicators, eight data sources, all showing the same thing: a general reduction in children’s health,” said Dr. Christopher Forrest, one of the study authors, to The Associated Press.

The study revealed that American children were 15% to 20% more likely to have a chronic condition such as anxiety, depression or sleep apnea than American children in 2011.

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The results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined the physical and mental health of American children from 2007 to 2023. (AP photo / Charlie Riedel, file)

According to the results,

American children also experienced an increase in the early appearance of menstruation, sleep problems, activity limits, physical symptoms, depressive symptoms and loneliness during the study period.

The document also compared the mortality rates of American children to children in other high -income countries, noting that American children were approximately 1.8 times more likely to die than those of other countries.

The premature birth and unexpected sudden death were much higher in American infants, and incidents linked to firearms and accidents of motor vehicles were much more common among young Americans aged 1 to 19 than among those of the same age in other countries examined.

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The Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., put the health of children at the forefront of the national political conversation with his plan “Make America Healthy Again”.

A accompanied editorial The new study, however, argued that the actions of the Trump administration – including reductions in federal health agencies, Medicaid and scientific research – are not likely to reverse the trend.

“The health of children in America is not as good as it should be, not as good as other countries, and the current policies of this administration will certainly worsen things,” said Dr. Frederick Rivara, pediatrician and researcher at the Seattle and Uw Medicine Children’s Hospital in Seattle, AP.

Forrest, a pediatrician at the Philadelphia children’s hospital, said that “children are the canaries of the coal mine” and that the results reflect greater problems with American health as a whole.

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“We have to step back and take some lessons from the community of ecological sustainability and say: let’s look at the ecosystem in which children grow up. And let’s start on a sort of neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city, examining it,” he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.