The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study.
Richard Charles FranklinAmy E PedenErin B HamiltonCatherine BisignanoChris D CastleZachary V DingelsSimon I HayZichen LiuAli H MokdadNicholas L S RobertsDillon O SylteTheo VosGdiom Gebreheat AbadyAkine Eshete AbosetugnRushdia AhmedFares AlahdabCatalina Liliana AndreiCarl Abelardo T AntonioJalal ArablooAseb Arba Kinfe ArbaAshish D BadiyeShankar M BakkannavarMaciej BanachPalash Chandra BanikAmrit BanstolaSuzanne Lyn Barker-ColloAkbar BarzegarMohsen BayatiPankaj BhardwajSoumyadeep BhaumikZulfiqar A BhuttaAli BijaniArchith BoloorFĂ©lix CarvalhoMohiuddin Ahsanul Kabir ChowdhuryDinh-Toi ChuSamantha M ColquhounHenok DagneBaye DagnewLalit DandonaRakhi DandonaAhmad DaryaniSamath Dhamminda DharmaratneZahra Sadat Dibaji ForooshaniHoa Thi DoTim Robert DriscollArielle Wilder EaganZiad El-KhatibEduarda FernandesIrina FilipFlorian FischerBerhe GebremichaelGaurav GuptaJuanita A HaagsmaShoaib HassanDelia HendrieChi Linh HoangMichael K HoleRamesh HollaSorin HostiucMowafa HousehOlayinka Stephen IlesanmiLeeberk Raja InbarajSeyed Sina Naghibi IrvaniM Mofizul IslamRebecca Q IversAchala Upendra JayatillekeFarahnaz JoukarRohollah KalhorTanuj KanchanNeeti KapoorAmir KasaeianMaseer KhanEjaz Ahmad KhanJagdish KhubchandaniKewal KrishanG Anil KumarPaolo LauriolaAlan D LopezMohammed MadadinMarek MajdanVenkatesh MaledNavid ManafiAli ManafiMartin McKeeHagazi Gebre MelesRitesh G MenezesTuomo J MeretojaTed R MillerPrasanna MithraAbdollah Mohammadian-HafshejaniReza MohammadpourhodkiFarnam MohebiMariam MolokhiaGhulam MustafaIonut NegoiCuong Tat NguyenHuong Lan Thi NguyenAndrew T OlagunjuTinuke O OlagunjuJagadish Rao PadubidriKeyvan PakshirAshish PathakSuzanne PolinderDimas Ria Angga PribadiNavid RabieeAmir RadfarSaleem Muhammad RanaJennifer RickardSaeed SafariPayman SalamatiAbdallah M SamyAbdur Razzaque SarkerDavid C SchwebelSubramanian SenthilkumaranFaramarz ShaahmadiMasood Ali ShaikhJae Il ShinPankaj Kumar SinghAmin SoheiliMark A StokesHafiz Ansar Rasul SuleriaIngan Ukur TariganMohamad-Hani TemsahBerhe Etsay TesfayPascual R ValdezYousef VeisaniPengpeng YeNaohiro YonemotoChuanhua YuHasan YusefzadehSojib Bin ZamanZhi-Jiang ZhangSpencer L JamesPublished in: Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention (2020)
There has been a decline in global drowning rates. This study shows that the decline was not consistent across countries. The results reinforce the need for continued and improved policy, prevention and research efforts, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.