“Anyone can drown. No one should.” notes WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in his foreword to the first WHO Global status report on drowning prevention, released on Dec 13, 2024. Following on from the recommendations of the UN resolution on drowning prevention, championed by the Governments of Bangladesh and Ireland and the 2023 World Health Assembly resolution on accelerating action on global drowning prevention, this landmark report dissects the drowning burden globally, at the country level, and the trends since 2000, presents an overview of the key strategies to prevent drowning, and provides a benchmark for tracking prevention efforts in the future. Importantly, this report sheds light on a tragic, neglected, mostly preventable public health issue.

中文翻译：

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任何人都可能溺水。没有人应该这样做。


“任何人都可能溺水。世卫组织总干事谭德塞在 2024 年 12 月 13 日发布的第一份世卫组织全球预防溺水状况报告的前言中指出。继孟加拉国和爱尔兰政府倡导的联合国预防溺水决议以及 2023 年世界卫生大会关于加快全球预防溺水行动的决议的建议之后，这份具有里程碑意义的报告剖析了全球、国家层面的溺水负担以及自 2000 年以来的趋势，概述了预防溺水的关键策略， 并为将来跟踪预防工作提供了基准。重要的是，这份报告揭示了一个悲惨的、被忽视的、大部分可以预防的公共卫生问题。