In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Determinants of Health (ICSDH 2021), pages 70-76
Systematic Review: Covid-19 Pandemic Risk in Nutritional View on Pregnant Mothers and Infants
Fahmil Usman1 , Harsono Salimo2 and Adi Magna Patriadi Nuhriawangsa2
1Clinical Nutrition, Graduate School, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia,
2Graduate School, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia
Abstract:
Covid-19 has made an impact on individual dietary habits and bad nutritional state, especially to the weakly susceptible group of people such as children, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, and has been the major social health issue. The objective of this article is to discern the risk of Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the dietary habit, diet, and nutrition of pregnant mothers and infants. The method used is systematic review from several references with such keywords in Google Scholar database and Pubmed Research Gate. Covid19 pandemic in Mexico caused the significant decrease of food security from 38.9% in 2018 to 24.9% in June 2020 in domestic dietary habits and food insecurity. The positive change of dietary habits includes the consumption decrease of fried food, snacks, fast food, red meat, pastries, or sweet beverages, and the increase of olive oil, vegetables, fruits, and nuts consumption. The negative change of dietary habits puts the mothers and children nutritional health at risk, which is vulnerable due to mobility limitation, economic crisis, food insecurity, and large-scale unemployment. It causes insufficient nutritional supply to such a weakly susceptible group of people, incurring 28.000 and 168.000 death cases of mothers and newborn infants respectively.
Keywords: Covid-19 Pandemic, Dietary Habit, Food, Nutrition.