Health Disparities and Their Effects on Children and Their Caregivers During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the kidney community: lessons learned and future directions

“…Caregivers of children with kidney disease reported feelings of stress, anxiety, depression and insomnia during the pandemic, mirroring findings in parents of children with other chronic conditions 117 , 118 . Children with medical complexities have lost access to therapies, educational services and peer interactions, all while parents and caregivers have taken on additional responsibilities to navigate changes in employment and keeping their families healthy 119 .…”

“…Protection of children is paramount; however, equipoise with timely availability of emerging therapies and robust safety information are critical to this endeavour for the ethical management of COVID-19 vaccines. At a national level, the prevalence of childhood poverty, specifically its relationship to health and its disproportionality across sociodemographic groups most at risk during the pandemic, highlights another important paediatric kidney health risk 119 . Evidence of social deprivation along racial, ethnic and class divisions has been shown to have adverse consequences in both children and adults with kidney disease, but the specific effect of the pandemic on this population is yet to be studied 149 , 150 .…”

Applying a public health approach to autism research: A framework for action

“…The framework utilizes stakeholder engagement and interdisciplinary research partnerships to improve health and well‐being among persons on the autism spectrum at the population‐level. The utility of our proposed framework is underscored, for example, by the grand scale public lessons of the COVID‐19 pandemic (Cronin & Evans, 2021; Lin & Liu, 2021; Schott et al, 2021; Smitherman et al, 2021; van den Broek‐Altenburg et al, 2021) where we clearly observe the imperative to monitor and address population health disparities as contributors to outcomes, and to tailor intervention and dissemination efforts to address differential risk factors across the lifespan. Such lessons could be implemented using the proposed integrated research framework for autism with fourfold benefits: First, the framework facilitates the identification of knowledge gaps, translational barriers, and shortfalls in implementation which establishes an evidence‐base for setting short, intermediate, and long‐term research priorities.…”

Global burden of mental health problems among children and adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic umbrella review

“…• Improving social determinants of CAMH as a local and global health priority [5,49,52,[65][66][67] • Integrating clinical and psychosocial interventions in public health and child health policies and programs with special focus on targeted mental health components whenever possible [5,40,64,68] • Establishing and strengthening mental health safety nets for children and adolescents [52] • Psychoeducational interventions on pandemic preparedness and mental health promotion for children and adolescents engaging parents, family members, teachers, and other stakeholders [41,43,45,46,48] • Designing and implementing physical activity-based interventions that may improve psychosocial outcomes alongside overall health and wellbeing [29,41,44,47,48,53] • Addressing food insecurity and nutritional problems that may influence mental health outcomes [41,52,69] • Providing extensive and integrative care for children with special needs ensuring mental wellbeing [48,70] • Providing social support, social connectedness, peer-networking, and social interventions for improving prosocial coping mechanisms among children and adolescents with poor mental health [41,48,50,63] • Educating and engaging parents on positive parenting and mental health promotion [41,43,47] • Providing family-based interventions for holistic mental health development of children, adolescents, and their family caregivers [41,4...…”