Citation

Hyder AA, Alonge O, He S, Wadhwaniya S, Rahman F, Rahman A, Arifeen SE. Am. J. Prev. Med. 2014; 47(6): 842-845.

Affiliation

International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.amepre.2014.07.050

PMID

25241200

Abstract

Although childhood deaths from communicable diseases have declined during the last decade, the proportion of deaths resulting from injuries has increased steadily during the same period across the world. Drowning is the second leading cause of injury-related deaths among children worldwide. It accounted for approximately 359,000 deaths in 2011, of which 18% occurred in children between the ages of 1 and 4 years. Thirty-seven percent of the drowning deaths in this age range occur in South Asia region alone,3 comprising six countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.

Language: en