Revitalizing child health: lessons from the past

Autor: Jennifer Requejo, Abdoulaye Maïga, Joanna Schellenberg, Kathleen Strong, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Ralf Weigel, Sk Masum Billah, Marzia Lazzerini, Neil McKerrow, Melinda K. Munos, Zeina Jamaluddine, Sayaka Horiuchi, Ambrose Agweyu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Global Health Action
article-version (VoR) Version of Record
Global Health Action, Vol 14, Iss 1 (2021)
ISSN: 1654-9716
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE