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Preventing Child Drowning in the Philippines: The Need to Address the Determinants of Health

Children, 2021
Drowning is a public health issue in the Philippines, with children at significantly increased risk. Determinants of health (DoH) such as education, socio-economic status, ethnicity, and urbanization are factors that impact drowning risk.
Jonathan P. Guevarra, Amy E. Peden, Lita L. Orbillo, Maria Rosario Sylvia Z. Uy, Joseph John R. Madrilejos, John Juliard L. Go, Rammell Eric C. Martinez, Lolita L. Cavinta, Richard C Franklin   +8 more
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Exploring the burden of fatal drowning and data characteristics in three high income countries: Australia, Canada and New Zealand

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, Richard C. Franklin, Tessa Clemens   +2 more
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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, Richard C Franklin, Amy E Peden, Sue Devine   +3 more
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Drowning Risk Analysis Comparing Surf Bather Subgroups

Applied Sciences, 2021
The study assessed the utility of risk analysis for advancing knowledge on drowning risk factors. The setting was unintentional drowning of surf bathers in Australia.
Damian Morgan, Joan Ozanne-Smith
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A qualitative study of the causes and circumstances of drowning in Uganda

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Drowning is a serious worldwide and preventable injury problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The aim of this paper is to draw on the results of semi-structured interviews with witnesses, family members and friends of
Anthony Buyinza Mugeere, Frederick Oporia, Olive Kobusingye   +2 more
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Status of drowning in Nepal: A study of central police data [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2018
Background:  Drowning is a serious and mostly preventable injury-related cause of death. Low-and-middle income countries represent over 90% of total drowning deaths worldwide. There is lack of epidemiological studies of drowning in Nepal. The aim of this
Bhagabati Sedain, Puspa Raj Pant
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Drowning in the Eastern Mediterranean region: a systematic literature review of the epidemiology, risk factors and strategies for prevention

BMC Public Health, 2022
Introduction Globally, drowning is a significant cause of preventable mortality and morbidity. The Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR) comprises 22 countries of extreme disparity in income and is a region impacted by conflict and migration.
Amy E. Peden, Ali Işın
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Application of Quantitative Analysis of Diatoms in Lung Tissue for the Diagnosis of Drowning of Experimental Animals [PDF]

Fayixue Zazhi, 2019
Objective To discuss the application value of diatom examination in lung tissue for the forensic diagnosis of drowning. Methods The experimental animals were divided randomly into drowning, postmortem submergence and dying on land group.
ZHAO Jian, LUO Yin-zhou, WANG Yu-zhong, et al.
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The Combined Effects of Short-Term Exposure to Multiple Meteorological Factors on Unintentional Drowning Mortality: Large Case-Crossover Study

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2023
BackgroundDrowning is a serious public health problem worldwide. Previous epidemiological studies on the association between meteorological factors and drowning mainly focused on individual weather factors, and the combined effect
Yingyin Liu, Xiaomei Dong, Zhixing Li, Sui Zhu, Ziqiang Lin, Guanhao He, Weiwei Gong, Jianxiong Hu, Zhulin Hou, Ruilin Meng, Chunliang Zhou, Min Yu, Biao Huang, Lifeng Lin, Jianpeng Xiao, Jieming Zhong, Donghui Jin, Yiqing Xu, Lingshuang Lv, Cunrui Huang, Tao Liu, Wenjun Ma   +21 more
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Epidemiology of adulthood drowning deaths in Bangladesh: Findings from a nationwide health and injury survey [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2017
Background: Annual global death due to drowning accounts for 372,000 lives, 90% of which occur in low and middle income countries. Life in Bangladesh exposes adults and children to may water bodies for daily household needs, and as a result drowning is ...
Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, Animesh Biswas, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Fazlur Rahman, Aminur Rahman   +4 more
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