RESEARCH ARTICLE


Drowning Rates in the Newly Independent States & Russian Federation: A Call for Research and Action



Huseyin Naci*, Timothy D. Baker
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2008
Volume: 1
First Page: 36
Last Page: 39
Publisher Id: TOEPIJ-1-36
DOI: 10.2174/1874297100801010036

Article History:

Received Date: 15/10/2007
Revision Received Date: 23/06/2008
Acceptance Date: 24/06/2008
Electronic publication date: 23/7/2008
Collection year: 2008

© 2008 Naci and Baker

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Tel: (202) 746-7900; E-mail: hnaci@jhsph.edu


Abstract

Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide after road traffic injury deaths, claiming approximately 450,000 lives every year. Overall male drowning rates in the Newly Independent States and Russian Federation are dramatically higher than the rates in Western European countries; the highest male drowning rate in WHO Euro region, drowning rate in Belarus, is 50 times higher than the lowest, the drowning rate in the United Kingdom. 1-4 age group male drowning rate in Turkmenistan is alarmingly high. More research is needed to determine the risk factors of child and adult drowning in each of the Newly Independent States and Russian Federation.

Keywords: Drowning, Russia, newly independent states, child drowning.