Advocacy
This website focuses on the public health approach to reduce the burden of drowning.
A public heath approach: is an organised effort by society primarily through it's public institutions to improve promote protect and restore the health of the population through collective action. It includes a health situation analysis, health surveillance, health promotion, prevention, control, disaster preparedness and response, and the reduction of health inequality
Health inequality: is the generic term used to designate difference, variations, and disparities in the health achievements of individuals and groups. Health inequality is a descriptive term hat does not imply moral judgement. It is a dimensional concept, simply referring to measurable qualities, differences in health status, or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups.
Links
Videos:
World Water Safety Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kgmcjJ1FwY&feature=youtu.be
Nile Swimmers Video
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=717384194980147&set=vb.172265759491996&type=2&theater
BBC Documentary on Drowning in South East Asia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Child Drowning in Asia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utr32O1uCE0
Drowning Epidemic in Asia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0J_DqXlSYg
Drowning Research Centre - Bangladesh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCvjDMVGdJo
Documents:
Drowning was the leading cause of death from unintentional injury in 2010, followed by motor vehicle traffic incidents in USA for boys age 1-4.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db149.htm
Child Drowning: Evidence for a newly recognized cause of child mortality in low and middle income countries in Asia (2012)
http://www.unicef.org/eapro/Child_Drowning_2012.pdf
Cost-Effectiveness of an Injury and Drowning Prevention Program in Bangladesh (2012)
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/6/e1621.full.pdf
World Report on Child Injury Prevention (2008)
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241563574_eng.pdf
Workshop on Prevention of Childhood Drowning in South-East Asian Countries (2010)
http://www.wpro.who.int/mnh/documents/docs/WorkshoponChildhoodDrowningPreventionreport.pdf
International Life Saving Federation, World Drowning Report 2007
http://www.ilsf.org/sites/ilsf.org/files/filefield/world-drowning-report-final-sept-27-2007.pdf
Canadian Drowning and Water Incident Research and Reports
http://www.lifesaving.ca/index.php/what-we-do/water-incident-research-and-reports/
Australian Drowning Reports
http://www.royallifesaving.com.au/facts-and-figures/research-and-reports/drowning-reports
Child Drowning in LMIC nations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLm6fsDPAcA
Hidden Epidemic of Child Drowning
The Bangladesh Experience
