The United States is confronting a growing pediatric health crisis, with mounting evidence pointing to a decline in children’s overall health and wellbeing. A recent study revealed that children in the U.S. are dying at significantly higher rates than their peers in other high-income nations, underscoring the severity of the issue.1 2
The cross-sectional study was published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association and found that from 2007 to 2023, U.S. children were 80 percent more likely to die than their peers in other high-income countries. The sources covered at least a decade of data, and the researchers analyzed hundreds of millions of health records from five nationally representative surveys and electronic health records.
Co-author of the children health study Chris Forrest, MD, PhD said that what is particularly frustrating is that the majority of the health problems and deaths occurring among children living in the U.S. are avoidable. Dr. Forrest also said the results were applicable to the total pediatric population and were not dependent upon socioeconomic status.1 3
For infants, the study cites premature birth, sudden infant death syndrome, and congenital anomalies as drivers of mortality. For children ages one to 19, causes of death were largely due to firearms, vehicle accidents, substance abuse, and homicide.3
Chronic Poor Health Conditions Found 15 to 20 Times Higher than in 2011
But the authors largely highlight chronic poor health conditions driving an alarming decline in health and increase in mortality. Forrest, a professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, stated that chronic conditions are a newer phenomenon that he hardly saw when he first began taking care of children in the 1990s. The study found that today, nearly half of children are getting medical care for chronic health conditions, and that a child in 2023 was 15 to 20 times more likely to have a chronic condition than a child in 2011.3
“I think we all should be disturbed by this,” Forrest said. “Kids in this country are really suffering.”1
Asthma was the only chronic condition for which rates improved in the studied timeframe. Depression, anxiety, autism, behavioral conditions, developmental delays, speech disorders, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders all increased. Physical conditions such as obesity, sleeping problems, and early menstruation also increased.1 3
U.S. Ranks Lowest in Children’s Health and Wellbeing
The findings are consistent with prior research findings. A 2024 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found that despite medical advances, the U.S. currently ranks at the bottom among wealthy nations when it comes to the mental well-being, physical health, and academic and social skills of children.2
Chronic conditions were also the focus of a recent report from the federal government’s Make America Health Again Commission, which referenced today’s children as “the sickest generation in American history.” The report cites processed foods, environmental chemical exposures, technology use, and overprescribing of medication as the contributing factors.1
Study Author Encourages Evaluating Entire ‘Ecosystem” of U.S. Children
But Forrest states that the findings should be a wake-up call that our country is failing kids and encourages not solely examining food, chemicals, or technology—but the entire ecosystem that our children are growing up in.
“Many of these trends started back in the 1970s, so we’re talking about a long-term decline in children’s health,” Forrest said in an interview with the publication Science. “That speaks to very deep-seated issues in our society about how we value children’s health, how we value the places where kids are growing up, and how we take care of kids.”2
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Click here to view References:1 Christensen J. US children are much more likely to die than kids in similar countries, study finds. CNN July 7, 2025.
2 Ahmed N. Comprehensive look at U.S. children’s health finds ‘steady decline’. Science July 7, 2025.
3 Forrest C. Trends in US children’s mortality, chronic conditions, obesity, functional status, and symptoms. JAMA July 7, 2025.
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Do you believe that this is not intentional?
Clueless doctors refuse to see that much of this problem is from vaccines…all should be banned from use.
Maybe because our government allows Glyphosate and worse to be put in our seed, food and soil; or big pharma pushing all the vaccines they push today as compared to just a few decades ago. Just saying………
“…Chronic conditions were also the focus of a recent report from the federal government’s Make America Health Again Commission, which referenced today’s children as “the sickest generation in American history.” The report cites processed foods, environmental chemical exposures, technology use, and over prescribing of medication as the contributing factors.1…”
Children in industrialized nations all eat the same processed foods, sit in the house playing video games & talking on cell phones, breath-eat-drink industrial chemical contaminants.
HOWEVER
Children in other nations are WAY UNDER VACCINATED compared to the CDC schedule in the USA. Children in other nations are not routinely prescribed psychoactive medications before puberty. Fluoride from China is not routinely dumped into public drinking water of other industrialized nations like it is in the USA.
Socioeconomic status MOST CERTAINLY is a factor in the USA.
Only the illusion created by third eye blind math-e-magic and word wizardry savants can skew the “Statistics” to say otherwise. Any child on welfare has a social worker whose first concern is ALWAYS the CDC vaccination schedule. No vaccines? If the parents don’t comply, they are judged by the social worker to be unfit and the children are placed in our foster care system. To prevent this the “Unfit parents” take their children to the CLINIC where physicians have no problem giving multiple doses at once to get the children back on the CDC schedule.
If you vaccinate your children, you are playing Russian Roulette.
The left out as main drivers of the chronic childhood health crisis, medical interventions during pregnancy, labor & delivery which includes va((ines, antibiotics to both delivering mother, fetus and newborn, ultrasounds, doppler and fetal heart monitors (most are unaware of the scientific evidence even more so than the vaccine science), inductions, high rate of c-sections, vit k shots, etc… I’m’ not sure if “overprescribing of medication” would include the antibiotics and va((ines I mentioned in this article but i think it’s in regard to medications for chronic health issues.
Most people are not ready to grasp the big picture regarding the ecosystems of health. How long term health declines co encides with insect decline, rise of dangerous technologies, how these issues are inexorably tied into human health alongside a failed medical system. Like it or not, all the issues from technology to food to chemical to medical, and psychological warfare, they all play an important part in our personal health profiles. You want the truth? You’re not ready for the truth. The door to know has been there all along. Few recognize it’s presence. Too busy immersed in a sea of propaganda and misdirection. Oh Arthur, what a grumpy rather crazy individual. We’ll keep the cell phone task force going even if that guy’s no longer here. There is no safe space. No escape from the exposure despite anyones best efforts. That’s why it’s so difficult for people to comprehend, why they are afraid to be honest with themselves and open the door. There is no where on this earth that is safe anymore. Welcome to the future. If some corrupt set of people does not get you, it will be dangerous faux medicines and pharma. If they don’t get you, it will be never ending exposure to dangerous environmental exposure, from the chemicals to the frequency waves. If somehow you’re still breathing, some genetic manipulation to your own body through every possible vector of penetration from the foods to the ‘medicines’, that should help speed things along. And so on and so forth. Save the bees! That’s how you’ll know we’re approaching the end, you will not see any bees. The bigger ones are already depopulating at a breath taking pace. All we’re seeing are the smaller ones lately and they’re not doing that well either.
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Rainbow-History-Electricity-Life/dp/1645020096
This health decline reflects the consistent commitment of the American Academy of Pediatrics to poor child health, through their steadfast commitment to unproven interventions like vaccinations and willful ignorance of factors such as nutrition, electromagnetic harms, and environmental toxins. Pediatricians and family doctors, with a few notable and remarkable exceptions, in general deserve an F for their work harming the children of our country.
1) Studies like this were completely DOABLE DECADES AGO…
2) but..Studies like this wouldn’t even have flickered in the searching brains of scientists before RFKjr and the vehement ANTI-VAXXERS..lit fires on social media
3) even now, the claim that
–guns as a leading cause of teen death here OBSCURES the INEFFECTIVE [not just harmful] *medicine* for depression and anxiety that are massively PROSCRIBED,
–not to mention the SEX-TRADE GROOMING here courtesy of the TEACHERS UNIONS as well as their faulty classroom directing…
–compared to ”the Mediterranean Diet” elsewhere and much stronger alt-med wellness industries in Europe up until PHARMA established ”codes” for standardizing..
–on top of less mandation of EU and Japanese infant vaxxing,
–and US Corporate favoring futile glass ceiling women and disfavoring of motherhood work patterns like part-time as in EU and Japan
HENCE…
before social media all these battles were losing here… more big money went to wrong choices…
SO….
how did the EU get so far off track on cultural self-defense and industrial self-defense…. and now free speech???
TTYL
“Firearms” are NOT a cause of death!!!! They are inanimate objects!
Isn’t this a shame the greatest country in the world is killing its children with an over load of vaccines and poisonous ingredients in its food and water supply ALL FOR GREED
Russia and China exterminated millions of their own people after they became communist nations. It was a social restructuring. They did it by shooting or starving those people. The U.S. is doing the same thing, only slower. The U.S. is not totally communist but some of it is, and population reduction is part of it. Instead of shooting its citizens, or confiscating crops and food in general, the main vehicle is pushing these fake vaccines. The resulting deaths are much higher than the public knows. We need to remember that a lot of these deaths are attributed to “causes” other than the vaccines that the victims took. Also, only about 1% of these deaths were even reported in the first place. Wake up America. The more people become dependent on the government instead of earning a living, the more the government will become socialist, and demand everything including human lives.