Abstract
Objective: To analyze drowning deaths in the State of Rio de Janeiro, in municipalities that have different physical-social characteristics, in order to propose personalized intervention models. Methods: It was divided between interior/metropole; subdivided between mountaintown/plan/coastal and high/medium/low absolute population. Drowning-related deaths were analyzed using DATASUS, in the ICD-10 category between 2007 and 2016. Results: The chosen cities presented a percentage related to the total number of 258 deaths, Niterói-102(39.5%), Maricá- 65(25.2%), Três Rios-49(19%), Nova Friburgo-27(10.4%) and Guapimirim-15(5.8%). Deaths in natural waters (W-69) reached 120(46.7%) and unspecified deaths (W-74) reached 107(41%). receptor municipalities obtained the following percentage of tourists in their deaths: Guapimirim-46.6%, Maricá-53.8% and Niterói-28.4%. The municipality of Nova Friburgo was considered PROVIDER with 25% of deaths in other cities. Conclusion: It has been shown that in coastal areas, metropolis or interior, Niterói and Maricá, deaths occur frequently with tourists at the beaches, requiring reactive prevention measures. Other municipalities in the interior, mountain-town or plan, Nova Friburgo, Três Rios and Guapimirim, with statistics of deaths in rivers, lagoons and waterfalls, where the presence of the lifeguard is an impossibility, the alternatives are the measures of education to the population and the active prevention, such as hazard signs and local warnings.