{"id":1705,"date":"2015-11-06T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T09:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2015-11-06T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T09:59:57","slug":"water-safety-in-australia-the-royal-life-saving-national-drowning-report-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2015\/11\/06\/water-safety-in-australia-the-royal-life-saving-national-drowning-report-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Water safety in Australia: The Royal Life Saving National Drowning Report 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/files\/2015\/11\/CO1LftcVAAAo8C_.jpg-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1706\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/files\/2015\/11\/CO1LftcVAAAo8C_.jpg-large-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"CO1LftcVAAAo8C_.jpg-large\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/files\/2015\/11\/CO1LftcVAAAo8C_.jpg-large-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/files\/2015\/11\/CO1LftcVAAAo8C_.jpg-large.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Royal Life Saving National Drowning Report 2015\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZwRyrvX4CQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royallifesaving.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Life Saving<\/a> for releasing both an infographic and video along with their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royallifesaving.com.au\/about\/news-and-events\/news-items\/release-of-the-royal-life-saving-national-drowning-report-2015\" target=\"_blank\">National Drowning Report 2015<\/a>, making the content more accessible and easier to share. The video &#8211; linking data, story, and prevention measures &#8211; is an excellent example of a clear, simple way of disseminating research findings.<\/p>\n<p>This important information, in these formats, speaks for itself &#8211; and in lieu of an in-depth post.<\/p>\n<p>Two recent<em> Injury Prevention<\/em> articles on this topic for further reading:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/injuryprevention.bmj.com\/content\/21\/3\/195.abstract?sid=88dee480-ed7c-455a-8158-6aaef4383cb1\" target=\"_blank\">Interventions associated with drowning prevention in children and adolescents: systematic literature review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/injuryprevention.bmj.com\/content\/21\/3\/185.abstract?sid=95829a8a-9a9d-4306-973e-50e7db3a2337\" target=\"_blank\">Does teaching children to swim increase exposure to water or risk-taking when in the water? Emerging evidence from Bangladesh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a cheeky note: unfortunately no infographics to summarise these &#8211; something I feel we as researchers\/authors\/bloggers should consider for key papers!<\/p>\n<p>On a related note:\u00a0Justin Scarr, the\u00a0Chief Executive Officer, Royal Life Saving Society &#8211; Australia, and Convenor, Australian Water Safety Council will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/event.icebergevents.com.au\/injuryprevention2015\/speakers\/mr-justin-scarr\" target=\"_blank\">keynote speaker at the 12th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion conference<\/a> &#8211; hosted by the Australian Injury Prevention Network, and The George Institute for Global Health &#8211; in Sydney from 25-27 November 2015. There is still time to register today to hear him, or indeed for any of the other speakers on the program, present. More information <a href=\"http:\/\/event.icebergevents.com.au\/injuryprevention2015\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Royal Life Saving for releasing both an infographic and video along with their National Drowning Report 2015, making the content more accessible and easier to share. The video &#8211; linking data, story, and prevention measures &#8211; is an excellent example of a clear, simple way of disseminating research findings. This important information, in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2015\/11\/06\/water-safety-in-australia-the-royal-life-saving-national-drowning-report-2015\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}