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Drowning is fast, silent, and preventable: a Texas example of research in action
Injury Epidemiology, 2023 Drowning is a major public health issue internationally. In August 2022, a report was released by members of the Central Texas Drowning Prevention Action Team that provided data on drowning fatalities in Texas between 2006 and 2020 and offered ...
Stewart R. Williams +2 more
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Coastal drowning: A scoping review of burden, risk factors, and prevention strategies.
PLoS ONE, 2021 ObjectiveCoastal drowning is a global public health problem which requires evidence to support safety initiatives. The growing multidisciplinary body of coastal drowning research and associated prevention countermeasures is diverse and has not been ...
William Koon +3 more
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Application of ecological dynamics principles to drowning prevention
Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2022 Drowning has been identified as the cause of over 2.5 million preventable deaths globally in the past decade. Lower- and middle-income countries in Asia have recorded the highest numbers of drowning worldwide and children seem particularly vulnerable ...
Chris Button +3 more
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Drowning - a scientometric analysis and data acquisition of a constant global problem employing density equalizing mapping and scientometric benchmarking procedures [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Drowning is a constant global problem which claims proximately half a million victims worldwide each year, whereas the number of near-drowning victims is considerably higher.
David A Groneberg +23 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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Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2020 Background: We aimed to assess the effectiveness of the health educational booklet intervention in improving parents/guardian’s knowledge on prevention of child drowning and, the perception of drowning risk and water safety practice. Methods: A quasi-
Noor Hamzani FARIZAN +2 more
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Water incident related hospital activity across England between 1997/8 and 2003/4: a retrospective descriptive study [PDF]
, 2006 Every year in the United Kingdom, 10,000 people will die from accidental injury and the treatment of these injuries will cost the NHS £2 billion and the consequences of injuries received at home cost society a further £25 billion [1].
Henderson, Holly E. +5 more
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, 1960 Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the drowning of three-year-old Travis ...
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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 +8 more
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Alveolar macrophages and the diagnosis of drowning [PDF]
, 1993 In the present study, we examined the number of alveolar macrophages in lung tissue from 17 cases of fresh water drowning, 22 cases of acute death and 6 cases of lung emphysema.
Penning, R. +3 more
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