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Gender-based approach on the social impact and mental health in Spain during COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional study.

Constanza Jacques-AviñóTomàs López-JiménezLaura Medina-PeruchaJeroen de BontAlessandra Queiroga GonçalvesTalita Duarte SallesAnna Berenguera
Published in: BMJ open (2020)
The social impact of the lockdown is related to gender, age and socioeconomic conditions. Women and young people had worse mental health outcomes during lockdown. It is urgent to establish strategies for public health emergencies that include mental health and its determinants, taking a gender-based approach into account, in order to reduce health inequities.
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