Advancing child survival: commitment to act on drowning prevention and opportunity for impactful change

Affiliations

¹ Health, UNICEF, New York, New York, USA jvincenten@unicef.org.
² Department of the Social Determinants of Health, Division of UHC/Healthier Populations, World Health Organization, Geneva, GE, Switzerland.
³ International Programme, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Poole, UK.
⁴ Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ireland, Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

Joanne A Vincenten et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2023.

. 2023 Dec 11;8(12):e014633.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-014633.

¹ Health, UNICEF, New York, New York, USA jvincenten@unicef.org.
² Department of the Social Determinants of Health, Division of UHC/Healthier Populations, World Health Organization, Geneva, GE, Switzerland.
³ International Programme, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Poole, UK.
⁴ Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ireland, Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Keywords: Child health; Global Health; Injury; Prevention strategies.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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