Poverty and food insecurity may increase as the threat of COVID-19 spreads.
Public Health Nutr
; 23(17): 3236-3240, 2020 12.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-960256
ABSTRACT
This article discusses the relationship between both poverty and food insecurity (FI) and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as presenting possible strategies and actions for increasing social protection in the fight against these conditions in the current epidemiological context, especially for low-income countries. This is a narrative review concerning COVID-19, poverty, and food and nutritional insecurity. The COVID-19 pandemic may increase poverty and FI levels, resulting from the absence of or weak political, economic and social interventions to maintain jobs, as well as compromised food production and distribution chains and reduced access to healthy foods in different countries around the world, especially the poorest ones, where social and economic inequality was already historically high; the pandemic heightens and uncovers the vulnerability of poor populations. Public policies focused on guaranteeing the human right to adequate food must be improved and implemented for populations in contexts of poverty with the aim of providing food security.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Poverty
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Food Insecurity
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Reviews
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Public Health Nutr
Journal subject:
Nutritional Sciences
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Public Health
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S1368980020003493
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