Assuring Primary Healthcare Services to Vulnerable Children in a Disadvantaged Suburb of Rome Metropolitan City During the Pandemic: Responses to the Crisis DOI Creative Commons
Aurelia Rughetti, Anna Rita Buonomini, Lucia Russo

et al.

Children, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12(4), P. 443 - 443

Published: March 30, 2025

Background/Objective: This retrospective observational study describes the social, health, and psychological conditions of children living in a disadvantaged degraded suburb Rome Metropolitan City during COVID-19 pandemic as registered by primary healthcare service Solidarity Medicine Institute, with aim fighting social exclusion health disparities lockdown offering free care to vulnerable families. Methods: The access pediatric interventions was assessed from April 2020 December 2022. For each child, biometric parameters were recorded, physical states assessed. Furthermore, data regarding family socio-economic variables collected. Results: From 2022, 638 children, aged 0 18 years, had system, which provided total 2300 visits. Moreover, food supplements, drugs, hygiene kits that necessary for containment infection freely distributed at center. highest proportion included this African Eastern European families (46% 35.8%, respectively), 41% these did not have pediatrician public service. Children 5 years comprised 50.81% entire population study. Nutritional status assessment indicated among 117 infants 0–12 months, 5.7% below 3rd weight percentile, while 28.9% exceeded 85th percentile. BMI 2 older (i.e., 521 children) 21.7% overweight, 9.5% obese. Sixty-nine cases psychiatric disorders also detected high frequency Specific Language Disorder (31.8%), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity (21.7%), Learning (14.5%). Psychiatric rehabilitative offered. Conclusions: Institute responded request municipality remain open offer assistance most people pandemic. has efficaciously served fragile population, intercepting needs overcoming exclusion, disparity, fragmentation welfare services exacerbated

Language: Английский

Assuring Primary Healthcare Services to Vulnerable Children in a Disadvantaged Suburb of Rome Metropolitan City During the Pandemic: Responses to the Crisis DOI Creative Commons
Aurelia Rughetti, Anna Rita Buonomini, Lucia Russo

et al.

Children, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12(4), P. 443 - 443

Published: March 30, 2025

Background/Objective: This retrospective observational study describes the social, health, and psychological conditions of children living in a disadvantaged degraded suburb Rome Metropolitan City during COVID-19 pandemic as registered by primary healthcare service Solidarity Medicine Institute, with aim fighting social exclusion health disparities lockdown offering free care to vulnerable families. Methods: The access pediatric interventions was assessed from April 2020 December 2022. For each child, biometric parameters were recorded, physical states assessed. Furthermore, data regarding family socio-economic variables collected. Results: From 2022, 638 children, aged 0 18 years, had system, which provided total 2300 visits. Moreover, food supplements, drugs, hygiene kits that necessary for containment infection freely distributed at center. highest proportion included this African Eastern European families (46% 35.8%, respectively), 41% these did not have pediatrician public service. Children 5 years comprised 50.81% entire population study. Nutritional status assessment indicated among 117 infants 0–12 months, 5.7% below 3rd weight percentile, while 28.9% exceeded 85th percentile. BMI 2 older (i.e., 521 children) 21.7% overweight, 9.5% obese. Sixty-nine cases psychiatric disorders also detected high frequency Specific Language Disorder (31.8%), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity (21.7%), Learning (14.5%). Psychiatric rehabilitative offered. Conclusions: Institute responded request municipality remain open offer assistance most people pandemic. has efficaciously served fragile population, intercepting needs overcoming exclusion, disparity, fragmentation welfare services exacerbated

Language: Английский

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