Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past
Essential health, education and other service disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic risk reversing some of the hard-won gains in improving child survival over the past 40 years. Although children have milder symptoms of COVID-19 disease than adults, pandemic control measures in many countri...
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| author | Kathleen L. Strong Jennifer Requejo Ambrose Agweyu Sk Masum Billah Cynthia Boschi-Pinto Sayaka Horiuchi Zeina Jamaluddine Marzia Lazzerini Abdoulaye Maiga Neil McKerrow Melinda Munos Joanna Schellenberg Ralf Weigel |
| author_facet | Kathleen L. Strong Jennifer Requejo Ambrose Agweyu Sk Masum Billah Cynthia Boschi-Pinto Sayaka Horiuchi Zeina Jamaluddine Marzia Lazzerini Abdoulaye Maiga Neil McKerrow Melinda Munos Joanna Schellenberg Ralf Weigel |
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| description | Essential health, education and other service disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic risk reversing some of the hard-won gains in improving child survival over the past 40 years. Although children have milder symptoms of COVID-19 disease than adults, pandemic control measures in many countries have disrupted health, education and other services for children, often leaving them without access to birth and postnatal care, vaccinations and early childhood preventive and treatment services. These disruptions mean that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, along with climate change and shifting epidemiological and demographic patterns, are challenging the survival gains that we have seen over the past 40 years. We revisit the initiatives and actions of the past that catalyzed survival improvements in an effort to learn how to maintain these gains even in the face of today’s global challenges. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-294bdc943bcf40fa99b127925d7284862022-12-21T18:19:56ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGlobal Health Action1654-98802021-01-0114110.1080/16549716.2021.19475651947565Revitalizing child health: lessons from the pastKathleen L. Strong0Jennifer Requejo1Ambrose Agweyu2Sk Masum Billah3Cynthia Boschi-Pinto4Sayaka Horiuchi5Zeina Jamaluddine6Marzia Lazzerini7Abdoulaye Maiga8Neil McKerrow9Melinda Munos10Joanna Schellenberg11Ralf Weigel12World Health OrganizationUNICEFKEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research ProgrammeIcddr, bUniversity Federal Fluminense Rio De JaneiroUniversity of YamanashiLSHTMInstitute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo GarofoloJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthNelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-NatalJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthLSHTMWitten/Herdecke UniversityEssential health, education and other service disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic risk reversing some of the hard-won gains in improving child survival over the past 40 years. Although children have milder symptoms of COVID-19 disease than adults, pandemic control measures in many countries have disrupted health, education and other services for children, often leaving them without access to birth and postnatal care, vaccinations and early childhood preventive and treatment services. These disruptions mean that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, along with climate change and shifting epidemiological and demographic patterns, are challenging the survival gains that we have seen over the past 40 years. We revisit the initiatives and actions of the past that catalyzed survival improvements in an effort to learn how to maintain these gains even in the face of today’s global challenges.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1947565child health and well being; child mortality; global public health initiatives; epidemiology |
| spellingShingle | Kathleen L. Strong Jennifer Requejo Ambrose Agweyu Sk Masum Billah Cynthia Boschi-Pinto Sayaka Horiuchi Zeina Jamaluddine Marzia Lazzerini Abdoulaye Maiga Neil McKerrow Melinda Munos Joanna Schellenberg Ralf Weigel Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past Global Health Action child health and well being; child mortality; global public health initiatives; epidemiology |
| title | Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past |
| title_full | Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past |
| title_fullStr | Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past |
| title_full_unstemmed | Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past |
| title_short | Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past |
| title_sort | revitalizing child health lessons from the past |
| topic | child health and well being; child mortality; global public health initiatives; epidemiology |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1947565 |
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