PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Student, 
TI  - UNEXPECTED INFANT DEATH AND ADVERSE SOCIAL STATUS
DP  - 1989 Apr 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - A77--A77
VI  - 83
IP  - 4
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/83/4/A77.2.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/83/4/A77.2.full
SO  - Pediatrics1989 Apr 01; 83
AB  - Families [in which unexpected infant death occurred during a minor illness] showed the most striking rise [in Sheffield] between 1980 and 1987 [and] had twice as many adverse social factors as controls. When we reviewed [these] deaths we found that many of the families in this group seemed to belong to a small subculture within which morbidity, poverty, excess smoking and alcohol consumption, and a fatalistic outlook predominate.... Many unexpected deaths in infants are multifactorial in origin; possibilities for prevention have social, political, and educational as well as medical implications.