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The prevalence of naturally acquired swimming ability among children in Bangladesh: a cross sectional survey

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, April 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (77th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Title
The prevalence of naturally acquired swimming ability among children in Bangladesh: a cross sectional survey
Published in
BMC Public Health, April 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-14-404
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Aminur Rahman, Michael Linnan, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, Fazlur Rahman

Abstract

Most rural homes in Bangladesh have ponds nearby to serve as household water sources. As a result children of all ages are exposed to water bodies on a daily basis. Children learn to swim early in childhood from peers and relatives in a natural process that involves play and structured learning. In a large, national injury survey in Bangladesh, the ability to swim was associated with reduced risk of drowning. This study determines the prevalence of swimming ability in children in Bangladesh as a step in assessing whether this is a potential component of a national drowning prevention program.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 72 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 15%
Student > Master 10 14%
Student > Bachelor 9 12%
Student > Postgraduate 4 5%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 17 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 18%
Sports and Recreations 12 16%
Social Sciences 10 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 23 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 November 2022.
All research outputs
#5,729,032
of 23,842,189 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,600
of 15,428 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,791
of 228,698 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#87
of 274 outputs
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