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View ArticleWATER DEATHS AND INJURIES DATA PUBLISHED
Countries Covered: UK Date: 2011 A new resource has been launched to collect and share better data on fatal and non-fatal drownings, injuries and near misses. The Water Incident Database (WAID) has...
View ArticleCAPIC SYSTEMATIC REVIEW DATABASE & SAFETYLIT
Countries Covered: Europe Date: 2013 CAPIC SYSTEMATIC REVIEW DATABASE & SAFETYLIT A huge amount of research on preventing injuries is carried out across the world. It is difficult for injury...
View ArticleWHERE TO FIND INJURY DATA AND STATISTICS IN THE UK AND IRELAND?
Countries Covered: UK and Ireland Date: 2013 To help injury practitioners find relevant and up to date injury related statistics; IOBI have produced guides on where to find injury data in the...
View ArticleMORE THAN A MILLION CHILDREN IN UK UNABLE TO SWIM
More than a million primary schoolchildren are unable to swim, says a major survey out today. A report by swimming’s governing body, the Amateur Swimming Association, shows that 51 per cent of seven to...
View ArticleDROWNING RESEARCH IDENTIFIES POTENTIAL TARGETS FOR WATER SAFETY CAMPAIGNS
Young Scottish and Welsh men, some watersports and areas with the greatest amount of inland water should be targeted for drowning prevention campaigns, according to the findings of a pioneering...
View ArticleGO SAFE SCOTLAND – NEW SAFETY TOOL FOR CHILDREN
An interactive safety resource for primary school children in Scotland, called Go Safe Scotland, has been launched in Glasgow. This resource will help to deliver key safety messages and support the...
View ArticleSAVING OF LIVES FROM DROWNING GRANTS INITIATIVE
Countries Covered: Low and Middle Income Countries Date: 2013 The Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU), with funding provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, is launching the Saving...
View ArticleWORLD: LARGEST EVER GRANT ANNOUNCED FOR DROWNING PREVENTION
Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a commitment of US$ 10 million to save children from drowning. The Bloomberg Philanthropies Drowning Prevention Project will have a major focus on children aged...
View ArticleWORLD: JOIN THE WORLD’S LARGEST SWIMMING LESSON
Please join the international drowning prevention campaign by helping to spread the word about the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson (WLSL) taking place on Friday, June 20th, 2014. The WLSL event is a...
View ArticleWORLD: WHO AIMS TO RELEASE THE GLOBAL REPORT ON DROWNING LATE 2014
The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to release the Global report on drowning prevention late 2014. This will cover drowning in all countries of the world across all ages, will set out what is...
View ArticlePARACHUTE – A CANADIAN CHARITABLE ORGANISATION DEDICATED TO PREVENTING...
Parachute is a Canadian charitable organisation dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives. http://www.parachutecanada.org/ Information, tools and guides are available for the following injury...
View ArticleWORLD: WHO GLOBAL REPORT ON DROWNING AND EUROPEAN COMMENTARY
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the ‘Global report on drowning – preventing a leading killer’. Drowning claims the lives of 372 000 people a year worldwide, with over 90% of these...
View ArticleSCOTLAND: NEW WATER SAFETY INITIATIVE
A new water safety group has been established by RoSPA Scotland to prevent drowning and water–related deaths across Scotland. One of the first actions of ‘Scotland’s Water Safety Reference Group’ has...
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