Social Distancing in the Era of COVID-19: A Call for Maintaining Social Support for the Maternal Population

In the era of COVID-19, pregnant and postpartum women, an already vulnerable group, are facing unforeseen and compounding stressful events with reduced social protections. We argue that to prevent harmful consequences that may surpass the effects of the crisis itself for pregnant women and their fam...

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Autores principales: Alhomaizi, Alaa, Alhomaizi, Dalal, Willis, Sandra, Verdeli, Helen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8324190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33904413
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00398
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author Alhomaizi, Alaa
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description In the era of COVID-19, pregnant and postpartum women, an already vulnerable group, are facing unforeseen and compounding stressful events with reduced social protections. We argue that to prevent harmful consequences that may surpass the effects of the crisis itself for pregnant women and their families, it is imperative to prioritize maintaining formal and informal sources of social support for mothers in proposed infection control policies.
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spelling pubmed-83241902021-08-20 Social Distancing in the Era of COVID-19: A Call for Maintaining Social Support for the Maternal Population Alhomaizi, Alaa Alhomaizi, Dalal Willis, Sandra Verdeli, Helen Glob Health Sci Pract Commentaries In the era of COVID-19, pregnant and postpartum women, an already vulnerable group, are facing unforeseen and compounding stressful events with reduced social protections. We argue that to prevent harmful consequences that may surpass the effects of the crisis itself for pregnant women and their families, it is imperative to prioritize maintaining formal and informal sources of social support for mothers in proposed infection control policies. Global Health: Science and Practice 2021-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8324190/ /pubmed/33904413 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00398 Text en © Alhomaizi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00398
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