In:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, MDPI AG, Vol. 19, No. 1 ( 2021-12-24), p. 180-
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic had a direct impact on the extent of guaranteed healthcare services. Many gynecologists’, obstetricians’, and midwives’ offices were closed, laboratories suspended their activities, the collection of necessary tests was delayed, and women had to wait much longer for test results than they had to previously. General women’s healthcare prophylactic programs were suspended or delayed. In 2020, screening financed by public funds covered less than one-seventh of the female population in Poland. As medical teams, professionals, clinicians, and scientists, we have been facing a challenge to help, protect, and care for one of the most vulnerable population groups, pregnant women. A significant part of that challenge has been in preventing the spread of severe COVID-19, along with other preventable diseases, among women who are pregnant, who are in labor, or who have recently given birth.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1660-4601
DOI:
10.3390/ijerph19010180
Language:
English
Publisher:
MDPI AG
Publication Date:
2021
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2175195-X
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