PMC

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12527407/

 

Highlights

• Older Japanese adults exhibit the highest drowning mortality rates globally, potentially linked to the cultural practice of in-home bathing.
• Using death certificates from 1995 to 2020, we calculated national age-adjusted mortality rates (AMRs) and prefecture-specific age-standardized mortality ratios for unintentional drowning and submersion in bathtubs (ICD-10 code W65).
• Persistently elevated AMRs indicated that the increasing mortality associated with W65 is not solely attributable to population aging.
• Our findings indicated a negative association between the number of nursing care facilities and users and mortality coded as W65 at the prefectural level.

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