Your action is needed today:
1. Review the newly released
position paper on Non-fatal Drowning.
2.
Comment on the paper on Non-fatal Drowning before 15 March 2019.
3. SHARE this email with all of your colleagues in the field - on social media and by email. #nonfataldrowning and #drowning
Many thanks to our colleagues who worked on the report. Consistency in terminology and sharing best practices are critical in ending drowning.
Non-fatal Drowning Working Group Members:
Dr Stephen Beerman
Dr Joost Bierens
Dr Tessa Clemens
Dr David Meddings
Dr Aminur Rahman
Dr David Szpilman
Background on the Position Paper from Dr. David Meddings of the WHO:
"You may know that there has been discussion within the global drowning community aimed at improving the use of the phrase "non-fatal drowning".
Based on these discussions a Working Group was established to carry this issue further. A very productive meeting about this topic was hosted by the Drowning Prevention Research Centre Canada in Toronto during August 2018. That meeting resulted in the Working Group developing a proposed categorization framework for non-fatal drowning. A few months were needed to further tweak the language and develop a users guide annex for the framework. The Working Group has agreed as part of our discussions in August last year that the Position Statement of the Working Group should be made available for public comment. Accordingly, the Position Statement along with a link for providing reviews has been posted on the WHO website at the following link:
https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/drowning/non-fatal-drowning/en/ The Position Statement is available for review until 15 March 2019.
On behalf of the Working Group I would like to ask you to please take the time to download and review the Position Statement. My colleagues on the Working Group as well as myself would also be very grateful if you would please circulate this email widely within your networks."
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