{
  "id": 11005434,
  "title": "The association between disability and mortality among children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/the-association-between-disability-and-mortality-among-children-and",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-30T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PLOS Medicine",
    "slug": "plos-medicine",
    "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004947"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "by Maureen Moyo-Chilufya, Arthemon Nguweneza, Sara Rotenberg, Hannah Kuper, Tracey Smythe Background Mortality is a fundamental marker of population health and equity. Despite major global declines in mortality over recent decades, disparities in survival persist across childhood and adolescence, particularly by disability status. We aimed to synthesise current evidence on all-cause mortality…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}