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Building resilient societies after COVID-19: the case for investing in maternal, neonatal, and child health

Resilient societies respond rapidly and effectively to health challenges and the associated economic consequences, and adapt to be more responsive to future challenges. Although it is only possible to recognise resilience retrospectively, the COVID-19 pandemic has occurred at a point in human histor...

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Autores principales: Jacob, Chandni Maria, Briana, Despina D, Di Renzo, Gian Carlo, Modi, Neena, Bustreo, Flavia, Conti, Gabriella, Malamitsi-Puchner, Ariadne, Hanson, Mark
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Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32971008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30200-0
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author Jacob, Chandni Maria
Briana, Despina D
Di Renzo, Gian Carlo
Modi, Neena
Bustreo, Flavia
Conti, Gabriella
Malamitsi-Puchner, Ariadne
Hanson, Mark
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Briana, Despina D
Di Renzo, Gian Carlo
Modi, Neena
Bustreo, Flavia
Conti, Gabriella
Malamitsi-Puchner, Ariadne
Hanson, Mark
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description Resilient societies respond rapidly and effectively to health challenges and the associated economic consequences, and adapt to be more responsive to future challenges. Although it is only possible to recognise resilience retrospectively, the COVID-19 pandemic has occurred at a point in human history when, uniquely, sufficient knowledge is available on the early-life determinants of health to indicate clearly that a focus on maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) will promote later resilience. This knowledge offers an unprecedented opportunity to disrupt entrenched strategies and to reinvest in MNCH in the post-COVID-19 so-called new normal. Furthermore, analysis of the short-term, medium-term, and longer-term consequences of previous socioeconomic shocks provides important insights into those domains of MNCH, such as neurocognitive development and nutrition, for which investment will generate the greatest benefit. Such considerations apply to high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, implementing appropriate policies in the post-COVID-19 recovery period will be challenging and requires political commitment and public engagement.
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spelling pubmed-75055492020-09-23 Building resilient societies after COVID-19: the case for investing in maternal, neonatal, and child health Jacob, Chandni Maria Briana, Despina D Di Renzo, Gian Carlo Modi, Neena Bustreo, Flavia Conti, Gabriella Malamitsi-Puchner, Ariadne Hanson, Mark Lancet Public Health Viewpoint Resilient societies respond rapidly and effectively to health challenges and the associated economic consequences, and adapt to be more responsive to future challenges. Although it is only possible to recognise resilience retrospectively, the COVID-19 pandemic has occurred at a point in human history when, uniquely, sufficient knowledge is available on the early-life determinants of health to indicate clearly that a focus on maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) will promote later resilience. This knowledge offers an unprecedented opportunity to disrupt entrenched strategies and to reinvest in MNCH in the post-COVID-19 so-called new normal. Furthermore, analysis of the short-term, medium-term, and longer-term consequences of previous socioeconomic shocks provides important insights into those domains of MNCH, such as neurocognitive development and nutrition, for which investment will generate the greatest benefit. Such considerations apply to high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, implementing appropriate policies in the post-COVID-19 recovery period will be challenging and requires political commitment and public engagement. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7505549/ /pubmed/32971008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30200-0 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Bustreo, Flavia
Conti, Gabriella
Malamitsi-Puchner, Ariadne
Hanson, Mark
Building resilient societies after COVID-19: the case for investing in maternal, neonatal, and child health
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32971008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30200-0
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