Children's health and safety: what we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and future policy's perspective

The wellbeing of minors and older adults has always been a public health target. The health and wellbeing of children, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1989, refer to multiple physical, psychological, social, and economic aspects. The main factors reventing these rights from being secured are poverty, social isolation, and persistent discrimination. It is well-known that the health system assumes primary importance in investigating and ensuring the wellbeing of little patients. (...)