More on drowning - including drowning deaths and efforts to reduce the drowning rates in the Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (NT) has the highest rate of drowning deaths in Australia. A report on non-intentional injury hospitalisations from water-related activities in the NT from 2001-2011 was published in the December 2014 Northern Territory Disease Control Bulletin. The report included a review of hospitalisations for drowning/submersion injury. This article focuses further on NT hospital admissions for drowning and reviews NT, national and global reports on drowning deaths. Efforts to reduce drowning rates in the NT and globally are discussed.