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LÆKNABLAÐIÐ
SUMMARY
This study was done to see whether mortality
from accidents and drowning among seamen have
changed through the years. This is a historical
prospective study. The study population comprised
27884 seamen who were registered at the Seamens’
Pension Fund. The members of the fund thus
formed the cohort. It included both fishermen and
sailors from the merchant fleet, most of them were
deck crew. A record linkage was done with the
National Register and the Register of Deceased to
get information on water transport accidents (ICD-7
E850-E858), the study period was 1966 to 1986.
The number of persons registered each calendar
year at the Pension Fund was used as denominator.
The mortality rate for water transport accidents
was 89.4 per 105 and did not change markedly
during the study period. The mortality rate for
submersion was unchanged 73.2 per 105. Most
of those who drowned were 20 to 24 years of age
but the mortality rate for drowning was highest
among those aged 45 to 54. It is conluded that
further preventive measures are needed to lower the
mortality from drowning which in Iceland seems
higher than have been found in a recent study on
fishermen in Canada.
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