Key result
The World Health Organization's ECO resolution provides key points that the pediatric surgical and anesthesia community can leverage to advocate for improved operative care and eliminate disparities.
Why the study?
Around 1.7 billion children lack surgical access worldwide, and understanding how best to operationalize the WHO Resolution WHA 76.2 (ECO) remains challenging.
This review provides a framework for the pediatric surgical and anesthesia community to leverage the WHO ECO resolution to advocate for improved global access to operative care for children.
May inform advocacy for equitable pediatric operative care; leaves open prospective studies on disparity reduction.
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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Stephens et al. (2024) conducted a review in Pediatric surgical and anesthesia care disparities. World Health Organization Resolution WHA 76.2 (ECO) was evaluated. The World Health Organization's ECO resolution provides key points that the pediatric surgical and anesthesia community can leverage to advocate for improved operative care and eliminate disparities.
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