Provision of basic swimming and water safety skills in low-resource environments: barriers and facilitators of use of WHO practical guidance
Thomas Mecrow, Jill Fortuin Abrahams, Muhammad Said, Shayne Baker, James Bonney, Aminur Rahman, Amy E Peden · 2024
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Thomas Mecrow and co-authors studied what helps and what hinders the use of world guidance on swim teaching in poor settings, in a 2026 paper. The guidance backs swim and water safety lessons as a way to cut drowning. The team mixed methods: a gap check of the guidance, surveys, and talks at a workshop. Seventeen people from thirteen countries took part.
Four topics stood out as needing more how-to detail: site safety checks, health screening of learners, consent, and emergency plans. Barriers ran from a lack of trained staff and gear to weak community grasp and patchy outside support. Chances to do better included pairing with local groups that hold medical or emergency skills. Better paperwork and admin also helped. The authors use the finds to shape hands-on tools that field teams asked for.
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| CREATOR | Thomas Mecrow, Jill Fortuin Abrahams, Muhammad Said, Shayne Baker, James Bonney, Aminur Rahman, Amy E Peden |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |