Profile of drowning deaths in Mangalore, a coastal city of Karnataka

Medico-Legal Update

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 39-42

  Mahabalesh, Shetty ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Drowning death; Submersion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMERSION; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; LAKE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POND; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIVER; SEA; SEASHORE;

EID: 23944455878     PISSN: 0971720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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