Child Drowning
Child Drowning
Child Drowning
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Acknowledgements: The authors gratefully acknowledge the partnership of the UNICEF Office of<br />
Research, and have a special debt of gratitude to those who endeavoured to make this series a reality,<br />
in particular, Gordon Alexander (Director), Morten Giersing (consultant) and David Parker (former<br />
Deputy Director). The paper results from the work of a large number of technical contributors who are<br />
listed in the annex. The authors are grateful for financial contributions from the UNICEF Bangladesh<br />
Country Office for the PRECISE project, and for assistance from Australian Agency for International<br />
Development (AusAID) for providing support in editing and statistical analysis for this paper. The<br />
authors are also grateful to Steve Beerman of the International Life Saving Federation (Belgium),<br />
William Bertrand and Joy Jones at The Payson Center for International Development, Tulane University<br />
(United States), Ross Cox at The Alliance for Safe <strong>Child</strong>ren, Danang (Viet Nam), Julie Gilchrist at the<br />
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States), Joan Ozanne-Smith at Monash University<br />
(Australia) and Curtiss Swezy of George Mason University (United States) who reviewed the manuscript<br />
at various stages of completion and whose comments and suggestions greatly improved the content.<br />
Keywords: Asia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, cause of death, child injury, child deaths, child mortality,<br />
children, China, community survey, demographic change, drowning, drowning injury, drowning<br />
interventions, drowning prevention, epidemiological transition, fatal drowning, injury, injury survey, low<br />
and middle-income countries (LMICs), mortality estimates, non-communicable disease, Thailand,<br />
tsunami, Viet Nam.<br />
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