Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Attributable fractions
- Introduction
- Existing estimates of the fraction of drowning in Australia attributable to alcohol
- Data on drowning in Australia
- Applying existing attributable fractions to data on drowning in Australia
- 3 The National Coroners Information System as an information source
- Introduction
- Structure of the NCIS
- Obtaining data from the NCIS
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- 4 Emergency department surveillance
- Introduction
- Context
- Alcohol relatedness
- Emergency departments as surveillance sites
- Collecting ED data on immersion cases
- Currently available ED data sources
- 5 Literature review
- Introduction
- Scope
- Recreational aquatic activity in Australia
- Injury associated with aquatic activity
- Physiological effects of alcohol
- Interpreting information on alcohol use and alcohol contribution
- Use of alcohol in recreational aquatic activities
- Public perceptions about recreational aquatic activities and alcohol
- Overall contribution of alcohol to drowning deaths
- Contribution of alcohol to recreational aquatic activity injury
- Measures of risk due to alcohol
- Trends in the role of alcohol
- Prevention strategies
- 6 Summary and conclusions
- Attributable fractions and mortality data
- NCIS as an information source
- ED surveillance
- Literature review
- Overall conclusions and recommendations
- 7 References
- Appendix
- Abbreviations
- List of Tables
- List of Figures