Research on Drowning & Drowning Prevention

• CDC Unintentional Drowning Fact Sheet
• Safe Kids USA Drowning Prevention Fact Sheet
• World Health Organization: World Report of Child Injury Prevention
• Swim Safe: Preventing Child Drowning in Asia through Teaching Survival Swimming Skills
• New Red Cross Survey Shows Nearly 50 Percent of People Have Had A Drowning Scare in Their Lifetime
• Research Belton Hospital: Drowning
• American Academy of Pediatrics: Policy Report on Drowning
• Healthy Children: AAP Gives Updated Advice on Drowning Prevention
• The Children's Bathroom Health & Safety Guide
• CDC Statistics for Unintentional Deaths by State
• Children's Safety Network- Articles that Focus on Water Safety
• NIH Study: Swimming Lessons Do Not Increase Drowning Risk in Young Children
• A Behavioral Approach to Pediatric Drowning Prevention
• Infant Swimming Resource: Self-Rescue™ Swimming Lessons for Babies and Toddlers
• Association Between Swimming Lessons and Drowning in Childhood A Case-Control Study Ruth A. Brenner, MD, MPH; Gitanjali Saluja Taneja, PhD; Denise L. Haynie, PhD; Ann C. Trumble, PhD; Cong Qian, MS; Ron M. Klinger, MBA; Mark A. Klebanoff, MD, MPH
• AAP Portable Pools Dangerous Risk for Drowning
• Consensus based guidelines to prevent open water recreation drowning L Quan (USA), University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital K Moran (New Zealand), University of Auckland E Bennett (USA), Seattle Children’s Hospital
• Seattle Children's Hospital: Safety & Injury Prevention (Water Safety Articles as the bottom of page)
• Consumer Product Safety Commission: Pool Safely Campaign Website
• Pool Safety Tips from Phoenix Children's Hospital (English/Spanish)
• ABC's of Water Safety Phoenix Children's Hospital (English/Spanish)
• MSNBC.com: Portable Pools Claim Childs Life Every Five Days
• Child Drowning in the News Worldwide
• Water Safety Expert Dr. Frank Pia's Instinctive Drowning Response
• The Alliance for Safe Children-Bangladesh-Swim for Life program
• Swim Safe Vietnam- Study spells end to Asian child drowning epidemic
• Mario Vittone- Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
• Water+Safety= Healthy (Handwashing Requirements)
• US Consumer Product Safety Commission: Pool and Spa Safety Publications
• Pool Safety Guide from Life Saver Pool Fence
• United States Lifesaving Association Rip Current Survival Guide