Open AccessImpacts on dietary habits and health of Indian population during COVID-19 lockdown
Author(s) -
Ramasamy Rajesh Kumar,
Saravanakumari Arumugham Dhanaraj,
Rashmi Saini,
Punita Kumari,
Priyanka Roy,
Sayan Paul
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
public health review : international journal of public health research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-4166
pISSN - 2349-4158
DOI - 10.17511/ijphr.2020.i06.01
Subject(s) - curfew , outbreak , covid-19 , public health , coronavirus , environmental health , population , socioeconomics , geography , infectious disease (medical specialty) , demography , medicine , disease , virology , sociology , nursing , pathology
In late 2019 the outbreak of a novel infectious coronavirus (SARS CoV2) which became globalpandemic and named as Coronavirus disease (CoViD-19) World Health Organization (WHO). On 22March, 2020 the Prime Minister of India announced and 14 hours’ public curfew and from 24 March,2020 announced sudden complete lockdown. The sudden complete lockdown made changes in theliving habits and social behaviors of public. Web based survey was conducted among the Indianpopulation of different age groups to understand the impacts on dietary habits and health during thesudden complete lockdown in India.