Built Environment and Drowning Mortality Across 203 Regions in 12 Countries

A global satellite-based analysis linking built environment characteristics to subnational drowning mortality from 2006 to 2021. The dataset covers 203 regions across 12 countries and was created by Ryan Essex. It reveals that built environment associations with drowning risk are complex, non-linear, and shaped by development context.

Use Cases

• Modeling non-linear relationships between urban extent and drowning mortality based on satellite-derived data.
• Assessing how built area near water interacts with population crowding to influence drowning risk.
• Conducting income-stratified analyses to tailor drowning prevention strategies to local development contexts.
• Investigating place-based determinants of drowning mortality variance between regions over time.

Strengths

• Covers 203 subnational regions across 12 countries.
• Includes a 15-year time series from 2006 to 2021.
• Links satellite-derived built environment data to public health outcomes.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the 12 selected countries.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Satellite-derived built environment data linked to subnational drowning mortality estimates.

Time Range

2006–2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 02:40:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

203 regions in 12 countries