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1.7 billion children lack access to surgical care worldwide. The emergency, critical, and operative care (ECO) resolution represents a call to action to reinvigorate the efforts to address these disparities. We review the ECO resolution and highlight the avenues that may be utilized in advocating for children's surgical care.
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Disparidades em Assistência à Saúde , Assistência Perioperatória , Humanos , Criança , Disparidades em Assistência à Saúde/estatística & dados numéricos , Assistência Perioperatória/métodos , Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde , Anestesia/métodos , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Operatórios/estatística & dados numéricos , PediatriaRESUMO
Around 1.7 billion children lack access to surgical care worldwide. To reinvigorate the efforts to address these disparities and support work to address global challenges in surgery, anesthesia, emergency, and critical care, the World Health Assembly passed World Health Organization Resolution World Health Assembly 76.2: Integrated emergency, critical and operative care for universal health coverage and protection from health emergencies (ECO) in 2023. This resolution highlights the integral role of surgery, anesthesia, and perioperative care in health systems. However, understanding how best to operationalize this resolution is challenging. We review the ECO resolution and highlight points that the pediatric surgical and anesthesia community can leverage to advocate for its recommendations for operative care.
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Anestesia , Disparidades em Assistência à Saúde , Assistência Perioperatória , Humanos , Assistência Perioperatória/métodos , Criança , Anestesia/métodos , Organização Mundial da Saúde , Cuidados Críticos , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Operatórios , Serviços Médicos de Emergência/métodos , Saúde Global , Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde , Pediatria/métodosRESUMO
The discipline of pediatric surgery has honored many of the early giants through programs that bear their names. One of those programs is the M. James Warden Global Alliance Partnership, a landmark program celebrated at each annual meeting of the Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons since 1989. This article describes James Warden and his legacy as a surgeon and humanitarian and provides an update on the past, present, and future of the Global Alliance Partnership that bears his name. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 5.