Moving Beyond “Abstinence-Only” Messaging to Reduce Sleep-Related Infant Deaths

Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), the leading cause of post-neonatal infant mortality in the US,1 encompasses sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) as well as other causes such as accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed. In 2013, SIDS and SUID accounted, respectively, for 39.7 and 87.0 deaths per 100 000 live births. There have been persistent racial and ethnic disparities in these outcomes, with SIDS and SUID rates of African American infants (73.3 and 172.5, respectively) and American Indian/Alaskan Native infants (78.3 and 169.6, respectively) remaining more than twice those of white infants.

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