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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant effect on the fitness and education of millions of children and their families, according to a study. Dubbed COVID-19 Inequalities and Impacts on Early Childhood Care, the survey was released Wednesday. , September 21 and shows a decrease in enrollment in daycare centers and preschools from 2020 to 2021, a decrease in vaccination and effects on the nutrition of young people up to six years of age, the era that adds early childhood.
The studies carried out through the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation in partnership with Itaú Social and UNICEF and based on the knowledge of the Ministries of Health, Education and the official statistics firm IBGE. and Congemas.
The researchers implemented questionnaires on health, schooling and socioeconomic facets and interviewed politicians and agents who act in these spaces in more than one hundred municipalities in several states.
The figures indicate that the pandemic has increased the proportion of very underweight children to 54. 5% between March 2020 and November 2021. During the same consistent period, the consistent percentage of children under five who were underweight or very underweight was 4. 3 percent.
As for the care of physical condition, the document indicates that the application of the ten vaccines to the first formative years closed the year 2021 with a policy of decrease than in 2019.
In the schooling box, the figures revealed that gross enrolment rates fell between 2019 and 2021, either in daycare centres or in pre-schools. 2016 as a component of its national schooling plan.
“We face the risk of a fall in school coverage in the first years of training. This is a real problem, already warned by specialists and shown in those statistics,” said Tiago Lisboa Bartholo, a visiting researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Another study in which he participated, exploring schools in Rio de Janeiro, detected a drop in children’s learning degrees during the pandemic, following the closure of schools and the advent of distance education. Students learned an average of 65% of what they regularly learned in face-to-face classes. The relief in tuition has basically positioned itself in personal schools, he stressed. This is possibly due to the loss of source of income for parents and guardians, or even the closure of schools due to the decrease in the number of students.
The effects of 2022 deserve to make us imagine if there has been a recovery in enrollment in private and public institutions. According to Marina Fragata, director of the foundation, one of the objectives of the study is to draw attention to the effects of the pandemic on the organization of this era and provide data and knowledge to help public policies.
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