Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China
文献类型：期刊论文
| 作者 | Gu, Lijuan1; Yang, Linsheng1,2; Li, Hairong1 |
| 刊名 | POPULATION HEALTH METRICS
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| 出版日期 | 2024-11-12 |
| 卷号 | 22期号:1页码:31 |
| 关键词 | COVID-19 pandemic Impact Heterogeneity Nutritional status Young children Natural experimental analysis |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12963-024-00353-x |
| 产权排序 | 1 |
| 文献子类 | Article |
| 英文摘要 | BackgroundA comprehensive understanding of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on childhood nutrition is crucial for devising effective mitigation strategies. However, existing knowledge regarding the pandemic's effect on childhood nutritional status remains limited. Furthermore, research focusing on young children aged 0-3 years is scarce.MethodsLeveraging the outbreak that originated in Wuhan in Dec 2019, the epicenter of China's first and largest outbreak, and national survey and statistical yearbook data, this study conducted a natural experimental analysis with the consideration of geographical exposure, temporal exposure and survey cohort effects to investigate the pandemic's impacts on varying nutritional indicators of infants and toddlers aged 0-36 months. A comprehensive set of sensitivity analyses, robustness checks and falsification tests were conducted. The potential heterogeneities across socioeconomic and age groups were also examined.ResultsThe pandemic was robustly predictive of a higher weight-for-age z-score (WAZ) and length/height-for-age z-score (HAZ), and a lower likelihood of underweight. The effects of the pandemic on increasing WAZ and reducing underweight were more pronounced among children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds or aged 0-12 months. Additionally, the increasing HAZ was primarily among children from households with lower family income. Moreover, the pandemic was negatively linked to the body mass index (BMI)-for-age z-score (BAZ) of children residing in more developed cities, and positively linked to overweight/obesity among children aged 13-24 months.ConclusionsThis study adds to a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on childhood nutrition. Notably, the findings highlight that weight gain attributable to the pandemic was predominantly among vulnerable children from disadvantaged backgrounds and younger age groups, who were already at a higher risk of overweight/obesity before the pandemic. Consequently, our findings imply the necessity of greater caution to the widened gap in childhood malnutrition post-pandemic. Furthermore, the study emphasizes the importance of implementing adaptable strategies with the consideration of social justice to safeguard all children's right to optimal growth from exogenous shocks and to achieve the children-related SDGs by 2030. |
| WOS关键词 | CHILD MALNUTRITION |
| WOS研究方向 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001353016200002 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/209500]  |
| 专题 | 陆地表层格局与模拟院重点实验室_外文论文 |
| 通讯作者 | Gu, Lijuan |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Land Surface Pattern & Simulat, 11 Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gu, Lijuan,Yang, Linsheng,Li, Hairong. Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China[J]. POPULATION HEALTH METRICS,2024,22(1):31. |
| APA | Gu, Lijuan,Yang, Linsheng,&Li, Hairong.(2024).Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China.POPULATION HEALTH METRICS,22(1),31. |
| MLA | Gu, Lijuan,et al."Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China".POPULATION HEALTH METRICS 22.1(2024):31. |
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