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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 Medicine
Drowning 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, Frederick Oporia, Caroline Lukaszyk, Binta Sako   +3 more
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Lessons learned in a data linkage project on fatal drowning [PDF]

Injury Epidemiology
Background 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, Ned Levine, Elizabeth A. Camp, Linh Nguyen, Sandra McKay, Shaila Zaman   +5 more
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Probabilistic data linkage to study the epidemiology of unintentional fatal drowning in a large metropolitan region [PDF]

Injury Epidemiology
Background 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, Ned Levine, Elizabeth A. Camp, Linh Nguyen, Sandra McKay, Shaila Zaman   +5 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, Jose Palacios Aguilar, Roberto Barcala-Furelos, Shayne Baker, Cody Dunne, Amy E. Peden, Rob Brander, Andreas Claesson, Stathis Avramidis, Justine Leavy, Jamie Linnea Luckhaus, Leonardo A. Manino, Olga Marques, Nina Joy Nyitrai, Luis-Miguel Pascual-Gomez, Leonardo Springer, Teresa Jane Stanley, Allart M. Venema, Ana Catarina Queiroga   +18 more
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Registo Nacional Integrado de Afogamento e Lesões Aquáticas

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2022
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Ana Catarina Queiroga, Richard Franklin, Olga Marques, Sandra Nascimento, Amy Elisabeth Peden   +4 more
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An underappreciated cause of ocean-related fatalities: A systematic review on the epidemiology, risk factors, and treatment of snorkelling-related drowning

Resuscitation Plus, 2021
Aim: Snorkelling is a popular aquatic activity which may result in fatal and non-fatal drowning. However, little is known about the scale of injury, factors impacting risk and strategies for prevention.
C.L. Dunne, J. Madill, A.E. Peden, B. Valesco, John Lippmann, D. Szpilman, A.C. Queiroga   +6 more
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A 2-year prospective evaluation of airway clearance devices in foreign body airway obstructions

Resuscitation Plus, 2023
Aim: To collect, analyze and report the first prospective, industry-independent, data on airway clearance devices as novel foreign body airway obstruction interventions.
Cody L Dunne, Kayla Viguers, Selena Osman, Ana Catarina Queiroga, David Szpilman, Amy E Peden   +5 more
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Impact of community-based first responder development for the management of drowning casualties in rural areas of Bangladesh

African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020
Background: Drowning is the leading cause of childhood death in Bangladesh. In order to minimize the number of casualties Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB) incorporated a ‘first responder’ program which includes Cardio ...
Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, Md Shafkat Hossain, Cinderella Akbar Mayaboti, AKM Fazlur Rahman, Salim Mahmud Chowdhury, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Aminur Rahman   +6 more
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Assessing variations in estimates of drowning mortality in Turkey from 2013 to 2019

Archives of Public Health, 2022
Introduction Drowning is an under-recognised public health threat and a leading cause of injury-related mortality and morbidity. However, in many countries, including Turkey, limited data impair understanding of drowning burden and Global Burden of ...
Ali Işın, Amy E. Peden
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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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