Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Measures for Preventing Drowning in Africa: A Systematic Review
Medicina, 2019 Background and Objectives: Drowning is a leading cause of unintentional injury related mortality worldwide, and accounts for roughly 320,000 deaths yearly.
Lauren Miller +3 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 +3 more
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Distinguishing suicides of persons reported missing from those not reported missing: a retrospective Scottish cohort study [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Understanding what distinguishes the suicide of individuals reported missing (missing-suicides) from those of individuals not reported missing (other-suicides) may have preventative and/or operational utility and inform our knowledge of ...
Gibb, Graham +2 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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Drowning: epidemiology and prevention. [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health, 1974 Approximately 6,500 persons drown in the United States each year.' Drowning is the fourth leading cause of accidental death, and for ages 5 to 24 is second only to death due to motor vehicles. Widespread programs of swimming and water safety instruction may account for the decreased drowning rates observed in recent decades, an encouraging achievement ...
P E, Dietz, S P, Baker
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Aquatic Competencies and Drowning Prevention in Children 2–4 Years: A Systematic Review
Safety, 2020 Aquatic competencies have been proposed as a prevention strategy for children aged 2–4 years who are over-represented in drowning statistics. For this recommendation to be made, exploration of the connection between aquatic competencies and drowning is ...
Danielle H. Taylor +2 more
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Developing effective child death review : a study of ‘early starter’ child death overview panels in England [PDF]
, 2011 Aim This qualitative study of a small number of child death overview panels aimed to observe and describe their experience in implementing new child death review processes, and making prevention recommendations.
Basarab-Horwath, Janet Anne +3 more
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Pool Drownings and Their Prevention [PDF]
Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1967 MERICANS are bringing the bathing beach into their communities and backyards. Twenty years ago, of an estimated 10,800 swimming pools of permanent inground construction in the United States, 2,500-less than 25 percent-were connected with homes or private residences (1). By 1966, when permanent pools of all classifications had increased to more than 700,
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Increase in self-injury as a method of self-harm in Ghent, Belgium : 1987-2013 [PDF]
, 2016 Background : Self-harm is a major health care problem and changes in its prevalence and characteristics can have important implications for suicide prevention.
Portzky, Gwendolyn +2 more
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Hidden Dangers to Researcher Safety While Sampling Freshwater Benthic Macroinvertebrates [PDF]
, 2020 This paper reviews hidden dangers that threaten the safety of freshwater (FW) researchers of benthic macroinvertebrates (BMIs). Six refereed journals containing 2,075 papers were reviewed for field research resulting in 505 FW BMI articles.
Stoaks, Ralph D.
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