Peer-reviewed article
Protecting young children from future pandemics: getting the basics right
Chunling Lu, Jere Richard Behrman, Linda Richter ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This peer-reviewed article discusses protecting young children from the direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 and future pandemics. It frames the issue within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, identifying survival, protection, development and participation as the four fundamental rights. The authors argue that safeguarding children requires progress in both technology and household socioeconomic infrastructure.
Key points
- Young children face both direct and secondary impacts from COVID-19 and future pandemics
- Protection of children requires progress in technology and household socioeconomic infrastructure
- The work is grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child framework
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Abstract
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has defined four basic rights of children: to survival, to protection, to development and to participation.1 Protecting young children from the direct and secondary impacts of the COVID-19 and future pandemics and ensuring their survival and healthy development requires progress in both technology and household socioeconomic infrastructure.