Widening the gap? Unintended consequences of health promotion measures for young people during COVID-19 lockdown
Widening the gap? Unintended consequences of health promotion measures for young people during COVID-19 lockdown
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DOI：
10.1093/heapro/daab015
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发表时间：
2021-02-19
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Shareck, Martine
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作者：
Alexander, Stephanie A.;Shareck, Martine
在 COVID-19 大流行的第一波浪潮中，全球防止新型冠状病毒传播的措施要求大多数人居家隔离。集体生活的突然停止意味着非必要的服务被关闭，许多健康促进活动（即体育活动、学校）也被停止。为了遏制封锁措施对健康的负面影响，迫切需要开展适应这一新现实的活动。一种活动形式促进室内体育活动，以防止封锁对身体和心理造成的不利影响。另一种形式的活动包括快速开发在线学习工具，让儿童和青少年在不上学的情况下也能参与学业。虽然这些促进健康的努力旨在造福于普通民众，但我们认为，这些干预措施可能会产生意想不到的后果，并无意中加剧健康不平等，尤其影响边缘化青年，因为他们可能无法从促进家庭体育活动或远程学习措施的干预措施中获得同样的社会和身体益处。我们详细阐述了几种干预措施及其对边缘化青年可能产生的意想不到的后果，并提出了一些可以减轻其影响的策略。
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, global measures preventing the spread of the new coronavirus required most of the population to lockdown at home. This sudden halt to collective life meant that non-essential services were closed and many health promoting activities (i.e. physical activity, school) were stopped in their tracks. To curb the negative health impacts of lockdown measures, activities adapting to this new reality were urgently developed. One form of activity promoted indoor physical activity to prevent the adverse physical and psychological effects of the lockdown. Another form of activity included the rapid development of online learning tools to keep children and youth engaged academically while not attending school. While these health promoting efforts were meant to benefit the general population, we argue that these interventions may have unintended consequences and inadvertently increase health inequalities affecting marginalized youth in particular, as they may not reap the same benefits, both social and physical, from the interventions promoting at-home physical activities or distance learning measures. We elaborate on several interventions and their possible unintended consequences for marginalized youth and suggest several strategies that may mitigate their impact.