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ReviewEnvironmental research2021

COVID-19 and children's health in the United States: Consideration of physical and social environments during the pandemic.

Jose R Suarez-Lopez, Maryann R Cairns, Kam Sripada, Lesliam Quiros-Alcala, Howard W Mielke, Brenda Eskenazi, Ruth A Etzel, Katarzyna Kordas, International Society for Children's Health and the Environment

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Review in Environmental research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.

Jose R Suarez-LopezDepartment of Family Medicine and Public Health, and Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. Electronic address: jrsuarez@health.ucsd.edu.
Maryann R CairnsDepartment of Anthropology, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA.
Kam SripadaCentre for Global Health Inequalities Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Lesliam Quiros-AlcalaDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Howard W MielkeDepartment of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA.
Brenda EskenaziCenter for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Ruth A EtzelMilken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
Katarzyna KordasDepartment of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214, USA.
International Society for Children's Health and the Environment
Center for Environmental Health · USJohns Hopkins University · USMilken Institute · USNorwegian University of Science and Technology · NOSouthern Methodist University · USTulane University · USUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York · USUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public health measures necessary to counteract the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have resulted in dramatic changes in the physical and social environments within which children grow and develop. As our understanding of the pathways for viral exposure and associated health outcomes in children evolves, it is critical to consider how changes in the social, cultural, economic, and physical environments resulting from the pandemic could affect the development of children. This review article considers the environments and settings that create the backdrop for children's health in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, including current threats to child development that stem from: A) change in exposures to environmental contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides, disinfectants, air pollution and the built environment; B) changes in food environments resulting from adverse economic repercussion of the pandemic and limited reach of existing safety nets; C) limited access to children's educational and developmental resources; D) changes in the social environments at the individual and household levels, and their interplay with family stressors and mental health; E) social injustice and racism. The environmental changes due to COVID-19 are overlaid onto existing environmental and social disparities. This results in disproportionate effects among children in low-income settings and among populations experiencing the effects of structural racism. This article draws attention to many environments that should be considered in current and future policy responses to protect children's health amid pandemics.

Indexed as

COVID-19PandemicsChildChild HealthHumansSARS-CoV-2Social EnvironmentUnited StatesChildrenCOVID-19EnvironmentPhysicalSARS-CoV-2Social

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PMID33852915
PMCPMC8542993
OpenAlexW3156413450

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