The The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on nutritional and learning needs of children in Ghana: A perspective

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World review of nutrition and dietetics Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI:10.26596/wn.202213247-50

M. Y. Konlan, H. A. K. Abiwu

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The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread globally, with major health, economic and social implications. Many countries closed schools as a physical distancing policy measure with the short-term view of mitigating the impact of COVID-19 by slowing its spread and reducing the burden on an already overburdened health system. Although the effectiveness of school closures on virus transmission remained a debated issue (Cohen & Kupferschmidt, 2020), prolonged school closure may have had profound negative social and health implications for children and could have exacerbated existing inequalities. In Ghana, all schools were closed down for several months. As a result, the out of school vacation time for most children doubled. We discuss three ways prolonged school closure may have affected children in Ghana . First, school closure has the tendency to exacerbate food insecurity for poor children in Ghana. For many students, not only a learning healthy The positive benefits of school feeding on improved academic performance, and the implications of food insecurity (including irregular and unhealthy diets) on poor educational achievements and related inequalities on children been studied (Schwartz & Rothbart, 2019). A significant proportion of children are food insecure in Ghana. and

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COVID-19封锁对加纳儿童营养和学习需求的影响:一个视角

2019冠状病毒病(COVID-19)大流行继续在全球蔓延，造成重大卫生、经济和社会影响。许多国家将关闭学校作为一项保持距离的政策措施，其短期目标是通过减缓COVID-19的传播和减轻已经负担过重的卫生系统的负担来减轻其影响。虽然关闭学校对病毒传播的有效性仍然是一个有争议的问题(Cohen & Kupferschmidt, 2020)，但长期关闭学校可能对儿童产生深远的负面社会和健康影响，并可能加剧现有的不平等。在加纳，所有的学校都关闭了几个月。因此，大多数孩子的校外假期时间增加了一倍。我们讨论了延长学校关闭时间可能对加纳儿童造成的三种影响。首先，学校关闭有可能加剧加纳贫困儿童的粮食不安全状况。对许多学生来说，学校供餐对提高学习成绩的积极好处，以及粮食不安全(包括不规律和不健康的饮食)对儿童教育成绩差和相关不平等的影响已经得到了研究(Schwartz & Rothbart, 2019)。在加纳，很大一部分儿童处于粮食不安全状态。和

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