You are here

  • Home
  • Online First
  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global child health: joint statement of the International Child Health Group and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Article Text

Article menu

other Versions

Download PDFPDF
Viewpoint
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global child health: joint statement of the International Child Health Group and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
  1. International Child Health Group
  2. Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
      1. Correspondence to International Child Health Group, Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health, London, UK; intchildhealth{at}gmail.com

      https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-320652

      Statistics from Altmetric.com

        Request Permissions

        If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

        • Mothers, newborns and children—especially in the poorest countries—are suffering significant indirect impacts on health and care as a result of COVID-19, with potentially long-term adverse effects.

        • Governments, donors, international agencies and civil society organisations engaged in confronting COVID-19 must collaboratively and transparently monitor and publicly report the effects of pandemic response on families and children.

        • Global investments in COVID-19 recovery must prioritise a new era of investment in robust health systems supporting a family-centred model of healthcare and child health programmes.

        Despite direct effects on children from the COVID-19 virus being rare so far, the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide could be catastrophic for children, with considerable excess death and suffering.1 2

        Many major causes of poor health and mortality in children are expected to increase this year as a result of the pandemic and the response. At the same time, the …

        View Full Text

        Footnotes

        • Twitter @intchildhealth

        • Presented at First published online 12 August 2020: www.internationalchildhealthgroup.org/covidglobal and www.rcpch.ac.uk/resources/impact-covid-19-pandemic-global-child-health-joint-statement

        • Collaborators International Child Health Group: Neal Russell; Natalie Prevatt; Andrew Clarke; Sunil Bhopal; Delan Devakumar; Amaran Cumarasamy; Maryke Nielsen; Paula de Sousa; Beth Stinchcombe. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: Sebastian Taylor; Susan Broster; Russell Viner.

        • Contributors The first draft was written by NR, with early contributions from NP and AC. This was then edited considerably and finalised by all authors.

        • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

        • Competing interests None declared.

        • Patient consent for publication Not required.

        • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.