COVID‐19 and maternal and child food and nutrition insecurity: a complex syndemic

• Published in: Maternal and child nutrition Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. e13036 - n/a
• Main Authors: Pérez‐Escamilla, Rafael, Cunningham, Kenda, Moran, Victoria Hall
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.07.2020; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Betacoronavirus; Child; Child development; Child Health; Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Children; Children & youth; Clinical outcomes; Coordination; Coronavirus Infections; COVID-19; Early childhood education; Family; Farmworkers; Female; food insecurity; Food security; Food Supply; food systems; Global Health; Health aspects; Health care; health care systems; Health services; Health status; Healthy food; Humans; Hunger; Insecurity; Local food; Maternal Health; Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Meals; Mental health; Nutrition; Nutrition research; pandemic; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; Poverty; Pregnancy; Risk; SARS-CoV-2; Security management; Social protection; Socioeconomic factors; Supply chains; Teenagers; Type 2 diabetes; Unemployment; Women; Womens health; COVID-19; health care systems; food insecurity; pandemic; food systems

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 prot...