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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Challenge of drowning prevention in low and middle income countries
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Editor,—We read the editorial on “The challenge of drowning prevention” with great interest.1 There is no doubt that drowning is a major but under recognised cause of premature loss of life and disability. This has been borne out by the Global Burden of Disease Study which highlights the scale of the problem, by region and by age and sex characteristics.2 It is worth examining their findings further.
At a worldwide level, Murray and Lopez estimated that drowning was responsible for about half a million deaths in 1990 and ranked 20th as a leading single cause of …