Child Fatality Review

Each year, an average of 500 Utah children suffer an untimely death due to disease, violence or injury. In an ideal world, we could protect all children from harm, but the reality is that our young people face many dangers.

The causes of childhood death are many and range from extreme prematurity to motor vehicle crashes and drowning. The events leading up to the death of a child are often complicated and difficult to document.

For that reason, the Utah Department of Health has established the Child Fatality Review Committee to investigate the death of every child up to age 19, and every death by suicide up to age 21. For more information about the committee, click here.