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Inflicted trauma consistently has been among the top four primary
casual factors for child fatalities. Because the data can be deceptive, these cases must be
examined closely to get a clear picture of how these deaths occur.
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Children under the age of one represent nearly 100 percent of unsafe
sleep fatalities in Florida making unsafe sleep a leading cause of preventable infant death
in our state.
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Florida loses more children under the age of 5 to drowning than any
other state in the nation. As we use the information on this website to target prevention
efforts, it is important to know how children are drowning so we can turn this statistic
around.