Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of a child rights-based approach to policymaking and crisis management. Anchored in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 3P framework—provision, protection, and participation—forms the foundation for health professionals advoc...
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of a child rights-based approach to policymaking and crisis management. Anchored in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 3P framework—provision, protection, and participation—forms the foundation for health professionals advocating for children’s rights. Expanding it with two additional domains—preparation and power—into a 5P framework has the potential to enhance child rights-based policies in times of crisis and future pandemics. The study aimed to (1) gather perspectives from child health-and-rights specialists on how children’s rights were highlighted during the early phase of the pandemic in their respective settings; and (2) evaluate the usefulness of the 5P framework in assessing children’s visibility and rights. A qualitative survey was distributed among child health-and-rights professionals; a total of 68 responses were analysed in Atlas.ti 9 from a multi-disciplinary group of policymakers and front-line professionals in eight world regions. As framed by the 5Ps, children’s rights were generally not safeguarded in the initial pandemic response and negatively impacted children’s health and wellbeing. Further, children lacked meaningful opportunities to raise their concerns to policymakers. The 5P framework holds the potential to shape an ethical child rights-based decision-making framework for future crises, both nationally and globally. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc47fc1d5eab482b976c4f9474ed28302023-11-19T16:05:24ZengMDPI AGChildren2227-90672023-10-011010167010.3390/children10101670Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the WorldEva Jörgensen0Laura Wood1Margaret A. Lynch2Nicholas Spencer3Geir Gunnlaugsson4Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland, Sæmundargata 2-6, 102 Reykjavík, IcelandDepartment of Sociology, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YU, UKDepartment of Paediatrics, King’s College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UKDivision of Mental Health and Wellbeing, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 9JD, UKFaculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland, Sæmundargata 2-6, 102 Reykjavík, IcelandThe COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of a child rights-based approach to policymaking and crisis management. Anchored in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 3P framework—provision, protection, and participation—forms the foundation for health professionals advocating for children’s rights. Expanding it with two additional domains—preparation and power—into a 5P framework has the potential to enhance child rights-based policies in times of crisis and future pandemics. The study aimed to (1) gather perspectives from child health-and-rights specialists on how children’s rights were highlighted during the early phase of the pandemic in their respective settings; and (2) evaluate the usefulness of the 5P framework in assessing children’s visibility and rights. A qualitative survey was distributed among child health-and-rights professionals; a total of 68 responses were analysed in Atlas.ti 9 from a multi-disciplinary group of policymakers and front-line professionals in eight world regions. As framed by the 5Ps, children’s rights were generally not safeguarded in the initial pandemic response and negatively impacted children’s health and wellbeing. Further, children lacked meaningful opportunities to raise their concerns to policymakers. The 5P framework holds the potential to shape an ethical child rights-based decision-making framework for future crises, both nationally and globally.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/10/1670qualitative researchCOVID-19child health professionalsconvention on the rights of the childsocial scienceschild health |
| spellingShingle | Eva Jörgensen Laura Wood Margaret A. Lynch Nicholas Spencer Geir Gunnlaugsson Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World Children qualitative research COVID-19 child health professionals convention on the rights of the child social sciences child health |
| title | Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World |
| title_full | Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World |
| title_fullStr | Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World |
| title_full_unstemmed | Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World |
| title_short | Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World |
| title_sort | child rights during the covid 19 pandemic learning from child health and rights professionals across the world |
| topic | qualitative research COVID-19 child health professionals convention on the rights of the child social sciences child health |
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