"I believe that you can’t manage what you don’t measure – and there’s never been a comprehensive effort to measure drowning around the world until now,” says Michael R Bloomberg, three term Mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which funded the report.
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他说，“我认为，不查明情况，就无法管理。
“The more evidence we can gather, the better we’ll be able to tailor our prevention efforts – and the Global report on drowning is a big step in the right direction.”
“Almost all water presents a drowning risk, particularly inside and around our homes” says Dr Etienne Krug, WHO Director for the Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention.
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日常生活中，溺水往往发生在浴缸、水桶、池塘、江河、水沟和水池中。
“Drowning occurs in bathtubs, buckets, ponds, rivers, ditches and pools, as people go about their daily lives.
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我们知道如何预防，而同时每年却有几十万人溺水死亡，这是令人无法接受的”。
Losing hundreds of thousands of lives this way is unacceptable, given what we know about prevention.”
The report describes drowning prevention projects in a number of low- and middle-income countries, including those where rates of drowning are high, for example, in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.
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报告建议应有系统地实施和监督这类工作，以便确定最佳实践，并推广最成功的做法。
The report recommends that such efforts should be systematically implemented and monitored in order to identify best practices and bring those which are most successful to scale.
The report also draws attention to the need to make drowning prevention an integral part of a number of current debates, such as climate change which leads to increased flooding; mass migrations, including of asylum seekers traveling by boat; and issues such as rural development and water and sanitation.
Laura Sminkey WHO Department for the Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention Telephone: +41 22 791 4547 Mobile: +41 7 92 49 35 20 Email: [email protected]