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November 2005
 Arizona 12th Annual Child Fatality Review: November 2005
There were 1,048 child deaths reported in Arizona during 2004 and 1,031 (98 percent) of these deaths have been reviewed for his report. The Child Fatality Program created the checklist to assist local teams in determining whether or not a death was preventable and to identify the most common factors present in childhood deaths. Thirty-five percent of all reviewed deaths(n=358) had at least one preventable factor noted and 309 of the deaths reviewed (30 percent) were determined by the local teams to be preventable. A child's death is considered to be preventable if an individual or the community could reasonably
have done something that would have changed the circumstances that led to the child's death.
The number of deaths that were determined to be preventable increased with the child's age, ranging from only three percent of neonatal deaths (deaths to newborns under the age of 28 days) to 76 percent of deaths occurring in the 15 through 17 years age group. The five most frequently identified preventable risk factors were drug or alcohol use, lack of supervision,
vehicle restraints, and driver inexperience. Drug or alcohol use was identified as a preventable factor in 102 (10 percent) of all child deaths reviewed in 2004. Twenty-one of these 102 deaths involved use of methamphetamines. The majority of homicide and maltreatment deaths involved drugs or alcohol and one fourth of the suicide and motor vehicle crash deaths also involved
drugs or alcohol. Methamphetamine was identified as a preventable factor in one out of every five maltreatment deaths.
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