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