Vanishing racial disparities in drowning in Florida.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the change in the racial disparity in drowning in Florida from 1970 to 2015 and to analyse the contextual factors associated with white, black and Hispanic drowning rates in Florida from 2007 to 2015.

Methods

Our outcome variable is county-level annual drowning rates by race, ethnicity, sex and age group. We computed county-level contextual data, including emergency weather events, temperature, extreme weather, number of pools, quality of pools, coastline, swimming participation rates and prominent black competitive swim teams.

Results

Between 1970 and 1990, the disparity in drowning rates between white and black males in Florida decreased dramatically. By 2005, the overall age-adjusted drowning rates converged. This convergence was most striking

SUBMITTER: Gorsuch MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478571 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature