Adolescent transport and unintentional injuries: a systematic analysis using the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Change in global burden of unintentional drowning from 1990 to 2019 and its association with social determinants of health: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

“… 9 In addition, we found an upward trend for adolescence aged 5–14 years old in some countries. This is consistent with previous findings that drowning causes the second highest number of DALYs among adolescence in 2019 (3.27 million) among unintentional injuries, 18 which suggests that drowning in adolescents is still a serious public health problem.…”

“…Several limitations should also be acknowledged. First, this study only focused on unintentional drowning defined by International Classification of Diseases-10 codes W65–74, 18 which limits our ability to assess drowning related to natural disaster and transport. Previous studies have found that defining drowning with code W65–74 captures only 61% of drowning deaths in Australia and may adversely affect the design of prevention policies in some disaster and water transport impacted countries.…”

Identifying opportunities for multisectoral action for drowning prevention: a scoping review

“…Drowning can be a high proportion of child injury burden in many settings 48 49. Adolescent injury studies,50 sometimes show relatively high proportions of drowning mortality but have not attracted the same focus as child drowning prevention. Few adolescent specific interventions have been identified beyond the promotion of swimming skills 51 52…”

Adolescence is an opportunity for farm injury prevention: A call for better age-based data disaggregation

“…Better data disaggregation on farm injury risk for adolescents will result in better understanding of the issue, including how risk varies by age, and therefore improved prevention interventions. A reversal in the neglect shown for adolescent injury prevention ( 2 ), including those injuries which occur on farms and in regional areas ( 37 ), would yield significant benefits, including the triple dividend ( 38 ) of reduced injury risk during adolescents, for adults working on farms and into the next generation of children living, working and recreating on farms.…”

“…Transport and unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for adolescents 10–24 years of age, with more lives lost than communicable or non-communicable diseases, nutritional or maternal health causes or self-harm ( 2 ). Predominantly, in the injury prevention arena, there is a tendency to focus on young (especially under 5 years) children and therefore, despite the persistently high injury burden among adolescents, there has been limited research on, and evaluation of, the prevention of injury-related harms among adolescents ( 3 ).…”