{"id":30,"date":"2010-05-24T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=30"},"modified":"2010-05-24T17:46:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T16:46:18","slug":"swim-lessons-for-us-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2010\/05\/24\/swim-lessons-for-us-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim Lessons for US Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a welcome reverse of previous policy statements, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aap.org\/\" target=\"_self\">American Academy of Pediatrics<\/a> now suggests that it is fine for children as young as 1 year old to receive swimming instruction. In the past, the Academy\u00a0 has said swim classes might give toddlers and parents a false sense of security. But recent research (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nichd.nih.gov\/news\/releases\/030209-Drowning-Risk.cfm\">a landmark case-control study <\/a>by Brenner and colleagues) suggests that swimming lesson dramatically reduce the risk of drowning death.<\/p>\n<p>The next step, of course, is to get equitable access to swimming lessons. There is both anecdotal evidence and research (including a paper by Carol C Irwin in press with <strong><em>Injury Prevention<\/em><\/strong>) to suggest that children from many ethnic and socio-demographic subgroups are much less likely to learn to swim competently than are their majority peers. That these groups are over-represented in US drowning fatality data is unsurprising but, nevertheless, inexcusable.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a welcome reverse of previous policy statements, the American Academy of Pediatrics now suggests that it is fine for children as young as 1 year old to receive swimming instruction [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2010\/05\/24\/swim-lessons-for-us-children\/\">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":[1141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}