Fatal drowning statistics from the Netherlands – an example of an aggregated demographic profile
BMC Public Health, 2022 Introduction Incompleteness of fatal drowning statistics is a familiar problem impeding public health measures. Part of the problem may be that only data on accidental drowning are used and not the full potential of accessible data.
Joost Bierens, Jan Hoogenboezem
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Fatal intentional drowning in Australia: A systematic literature review of rates and risk factors.
PLoS ONE, 2020 INTRODUCTION:Unintentional drowning deaths are only part of the drowning profile, with little attention being paid to intentional drowning in Australia.
Muthia Cenderadewi +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Drowning is a leading and preventable cause of death that has suffered an attention deficit. Improving drowning data in countries would assist the understanding of the full extent and circumstances of drowning, to target interventions and ...
Amy E. Peden +2 more
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Leave no one behind: An African perspective on the first World Health Organization Global Status Report on Drowning Prevention [PDF]
African Journal of Emergency MedicineDrowning is a significant but under-recognised public health challenge in the African region. The 2024 World Health Organization Global Status Report on Drowning Prevention provides the first comprehensive overview of national drowning prevention efforts
Colleen J. Saunders +3 more
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Lessons learned in a data linkage project on fatal drowning [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyBackground Drowning is the leading cause of death in US children 1–4 years old. The epidemiology of drowning at a regional level is understudied because no single data source provides complete information on persons who drown.
Rohit P. Shenoi +5 more
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Probabilistic data linkage to study the epidemiology of unintentional fatal drowning in a large metropolitan region [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyBackground It is difficult to study the epidemiology of drowning at the regional level because of multiple data sources, many of which have a high degree of unstandardized and missing data.
Rohit P. Shenoi +5 more
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The status of drowning prevention and control in the region of the Americas [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyDrowning is a major, yet preventable, public health issue causing an estimated 300,000 deaths globally in 2021. This study assessed the current state of drowning prevention efforts in the Americas, examining the presence of governance structures ...
Alessandra F. Senisse-Pajares +2 more
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Drowning and aquatic injuries dictionary
Resuscitation Plus, 2021 Background: Drowning is a significant public health issue with more than 320,000 deaths globally every year. These numbers are greatly underestimated, however, due to factors such as inadequate data collection, inconsistent categorization and failure to ...
David Szpilman +18 more
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Registo Nacional Integrado de Afogamento e Lesões Aquáticas
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2022 N/a.
Ana Catarina Queiroga +4 more
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A Review of Interventions for Drowning Prevention Among Adults
Journal of community health, 2023 Adult drowning is a complex and multifactorial public health challenge requiring community, national and global efforts to mitigate impacts. This study updates the evidence base for public health interventions that address adult fatal and non-fatal ...
J. Leavy +4 more
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