Why is the UK’s infant death rate so high? - BBC Newsnight

Babies and children are twice as likely to die in the UK than in other parts of Europe, but why is that? BBC Newsnight investigates. Please subscribe HERE

Occasionally we hear about the total number of children dying each year in the UK. Occasionally we hear about how infant mortality is on the rise and that we fare badly compared to some other countries. But then we tend to move on, pretty quickly.

In the first in the series, 'Young Lives Lost', Newsnight attempts to unpick why so many of our children are dying.

Health correspondent Deb Cohen begins by looking at how smoking impacts some of the UK's youngest children and investigate whether as a society we're doing enough to bring those numbers down.

Emma Barnett also interviews Prof Sir Michael Marmot, one of the world's leading experts on health inequalities.

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