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Health systems and nutrition in the time of COVID-19

As infection rates rise, job losses increase and workers leave cities to walk back home, and there is a silent hunger and nutrition crisis striking the country. Those who will bear the brunt of this are the already vulnerable—namely, children, adolescent girls, nursing and expectant mothers—now deni...

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Autores principales: Khan, Amir Ullah, Bali, Vinita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7971388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34720486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40847-021-00153-1
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description As infection rates rise, job losses increase and workers leave cities to walk back home, and there is a silent hunger and nutrition crisis striking the country. Those who will bear the brunt of this are the already vulnerable—namely, children, adolescent girls, nursing and expectant mothers—now denied even basic calories. Among these are some who are also suffering huge weight losses because of the 15 days of high fever. This tragedy will play out in various horrifying ways in the future and must be addressed with urgency. Our stimulus package promises loans, which will take time to reach the poor, and a meager ration of cereals and pulses, while hunger and insufficient nutrition are immediate problems as Raghuram Rajan pointed out recently.
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spelling pubmed-79713882021-03-19 Health systems and nutrition in the time of COVID-19 Khan, Amir Ullah Bali, Vinita J Soc Econ Dev Research Paper As infection rates rise, job losses increase and workers leave cities to walk back home, and there is a silent hunger and nutrition crisis striking the country. Those who will bear the brunt of this are the already vulnerable—namely, children, adolescent girls, nursing and expectant mothers—now denied even basic calories. Among these are some who are also suffering huge weight losses because of the 15 days of high fever. This tragedy will play out in various horrifying ways in the future and must be addressed with urgency. Our stimulus package promises loans, which will take time to reach the poor, and a meager ration of cereals and pulses, while hunger and insufficient nutrition are immediate problems as Raghuram Rajan pointed out recently. Springer India 2021-03-18 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7971388/ /pubmed/34720486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40847-021-00153-1 Text en © Institute for Social and Economic Change 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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