NEW Updates on Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition and COVID-19 – excerpts from scientific journal articles – 9 March 2021
Dear Colleagues,
As we anticipate ending on 30 April 2021, we would like to know how you have used the repository, how it has been helpful to you in your work, and gauge interest for its continuation. Please consider taking the survey http://bit.ly/MCHNresponse<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.co... (estimated time 3 minutes) before this Friday, 12 March 2021. Your feedback is very valuable to us and your responses will help to inform future efforts. Survey responses are anonymous.
Since our last update Tuesday, 2 March 2021 we have added 133 NEW publications for March (36 new), February (44 new), January (18 new), December (22 new), November (3 new), October (2 new), September (1 new), August (1new), July (2 new), June (3 new), May (1 new), and April (1 new).
Click below for the updated repository:
http://hopkinshumanitarianhealth.org/empower/advocacy/covid-19/covid-19-...
Individual months are located on the right-hand side, and new additions are marked in blue. To find the publication or topic of your interest, you can search in an individual month file using the Ctrl+F keys.
All publications provide emerging evidence related to COVID-19 and
* Child health (from neonates to adolescents)
* Maternal health (pregnant women, women of reproductive age)
* Breastfeeding and Infant feeding
* Nutrition (related to MCH)
In addition to several international reviews, this update provides emerging evidence from the United States, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Japan, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Brazil, Russia, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, South Africa, Italy, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, China, Ghana, Iran, Turkey, Canada, Libya, Israel, France, Poland, Sweden, Thailand, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Nepal, and Portugal.
Many new publications focus on COVID-19, pregnancy, and neonatal health. Three recently published systematic reviews summarized the clinical symptoms, laboratory and radiological findings, and outcomes of pregnancies affected by COVID-19. Another systematic review summarized international recommendations regarding breastfeeding and neonatal care in the event of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection.
A recent commentary addresses unsubstantiated claims spread on social media about the effect of COVID-19 vaccines on pregnant women while summarizing currently available safety data. Another study surveyed pregnant women and mothers in 16 countries to compare and analyze predictive factors of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. A joint statement of 6 scientific organizations presents current evidence of the COVID-19 vaccine’s compatibility with breastfeeding, also summarizing recommendations from Canada, the UK, and the US.
Several new publications report the direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 on child and adolescent health. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis estimated the incidence of the clinical manifestations of pediatric COVID-19. Multiple publications focus specifically on the neurological manifestations of pediatric COVID-19 and MIS-C. Others examine the role of in-person instruction on community transmission, examining COVID-19 case counts across 27 countries, regional infection rates in the UK, and household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the US.
Many researchers argue that inequities in child health highlighted and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic present opportunities to improve the systems that serve them. Topics include proposed changes to the US child welfare system, new strategies to reduce preventable deaths among infants and young children in Ethiopia, and opportunities to address educational disparities.
This is by no means an exhaustive list! Look out for our next update Tuesday, 16 March 2021. Currently, we have almost 5,200 publications in the repository.
We also have a specific repository only on COVID-19, Breastfeeding, Infant Feeding, and Breast Milk. : http://hopkinshumanitarianhealth.org/empower/advocacy/covid-19/covid-19-...
The next update for that will be Wednesday, 10 March 2021 (tomorrow). If you know anyone who would benefit from any of these updates, please let me know.
Happy reading!
Mija Ververs
Mija-tesse VERVERS
Emergency Response and Recovery Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta
Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore
USA (+1) 443-707-9769 email: mververs@cdc.gov<mailto:mververs@cdc.gov> and mververs@jhu.edu<mailto:mververs@jhu.edu>
CHIFA profile: Mija Tesse Cora Ververs is a Health Scientist (CDC), Senior Associate (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, United States.
Email: mververs AT jhu.edu
