Bridging Gaps Between Disaster Risk Reduction and Drowning Prevention

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aut.relation.articlenumber104445
aut.relation.endpage104445
aut.relation.journalInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
aut.relation.startpage104445
aut.relation.volume106
dc.contributor.authorLe Dé, Loïc
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-10T22:33:26Z
dc.date.available2024-09-10T22:33:26Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-02
dc.description.abstractDrowning is a form of silent and neglected disaster. Hundreds of thousands die every year from drowning, with cumulated fatalities surpassing that of large-scale disasters. However, research on drowning is largely absent from disaster studies and global and national disaster risk reduction policy frameworks rarely mention drowning risk and the related strategies for strengthening water safety. Drowning is mainly framed as a public health issue being studied predominantly by scholars from injury prevention, public health, and medicine. This paper argues that both disaster studies and disaster risk reduction policies have a critical role to play in progressing drowning prevention. It reviews the existing drowning literature and highlights trends, challenges, and opportunities to bridge gaps in knowledge, policy, and practice for reducing drowning risk. The article highlights the strong conceptual underpinnings that characterize both the disaster risk and drowning fields, the need for data sharing, the potential for community-approaches to drowning risk reduction, and ultimately recommends a more systematic integration of drowning in disaster risk reduction initiatives. The paper ends by underlining some of the barriers and requirements to foster collaboration between the disaster risk domains and drowning prevention.
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, ISSN: 2212-4209 (Print), Elsevier BV, 106, 104445-104445. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104445
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104445
dc.identifier.issn2212-4209
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/18004
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420924002073
dc.rights© 2024 The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject4404 Development Studies
dc.subject4406 Human Geography
dc.subject44 Human Society
dc.subjectPrevention
dc.subject3.1 Primary prevention interventions to modify behaviours or promote wellbeing
dc.subjectGeneric health relevance
dc.subject11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.subject0502 Environmental Science and Management
dc.subject1117 Public Health and Health Services
dc.subject1604 Human Geography
dc.subject4404 Development studies
dc.subject4406 Human geography
dc.titleBridging Gaps Between Disaster Risk Reduction and Drowning Prevention
dc.typeJournal Article
pubs.elements-id544126
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