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The Time Is Now

Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(3):277-278.

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Imagine a disease that kills nearly 200 000 children and adolescents around the world each year, and for which even the most advanced high tech medical care is nearly ineffective in preventing mortality. Imagine this disease having a 50% case-fatality ratio. Imagine this disease affecting children in high-income developed countries as well as in the developing world. The attention such a disease would get from the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, and others is likely to be great. Now imagine that we could prevent most of those deaths with an intervention available now in most communities in the world.

There is such a disease: drowning. Drowning caused 186 000 deaths of children and adolescents globally in 2002. It is the second most common cause of injury death for persons aged 0 to 14 years in the United States and is the leading cause of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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