Study finds fatherhood may lower early mortality, calls for more focus on paternal deaths

Researchers published a letter in JAMA Pediatrics calling for greater study of paternal deaths, noting that being a father may lower early mortality.

The authors cite a pilot study from Georgia that tracked fathers of children born in a single year and recorded almost 800 deaths within the first five years of fatherhood.

They argue that, like maternal health, paternal mortality deserves focused surveillance and public health interventions.