COVID-19 and maternal and child food and nutrition insecurity: a complex syndemic.
Matern Child Nutr
; 16(3): e13036, 2020 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-599152
ABSTRACT
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has already led to major increases in unemployment and is expected to lead to unprecedented increases in poverty and food and nutrition insecurity, as well as poor health outcomes. Families where young children, youth, pregnant and lactating women live need to be protected against the ongoing protracted pandemic and the aftershocks that are very likely to follow for years to come. The future wellbeing of the vast majority of the world now depends on reconfiguring the current ineffective food, nutrition, health, and social protection systems to ensure food and nutrition security for all. Because food, nutrition, health, and socio-economic outcomes are intimately inter-linked, it is essential that we find out how to effectively address the need to reconfigure and to provide better intersecoral coordination among global and local food, health care, and social protection systems taking equity and sutainability principles into account. Implementation science research informed by complex adaptive sytems frameworks will be needed to fill in the major knowledge gaps. Not doing so will not only put the development of individuals at further risk, but also negatively impact on the development potential of entire nations and ultimately our planet.
Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Child Health
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Coronavirus Infections
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Pandemics
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Maternal Health
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Food Supply
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Language:
English
Journal:
Matern Child Nutr
Journal subject:
Nutritional Sciences
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Perinatology
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Mcn.13036
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