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Drowning Report 2005

Drowning Report 2003

10th Anniversary Drowning Report

In 1991, the Canadian Red Cross joined forces with the National Association of Coroners, the Canadian Coast Guard, and public health professionals to provide a sound research base for development and monitoring of new water safety programs across Canada.

This document presents the pertinent facts on risk factors and prevention from a study of nearly 6,000 unintentional drownings and other water-related deaths, as well as for over 3,000 hospitalizations for near drownings in Canada from 1991 to 2000. Since innovative research-based training and prevention programs were introduced across Canada during 1994-1995, trends in deaths before and after this intervention are described.

Drowning Report 2001

Due to its size, the 2001 Drowning Report has been broken up into several different sections and saved as PDF files. You must have Adobe Acrobat to download these files.

Drowning Report 2001 (PDF, 680k)

Updated July 5, 2006