F.1 measuring Food and health Flashcards
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what is the name of the 17 goals made by the UN that can be helpful to reference in your answer?
Sustainable development goals
what are some global patterns in health indicators?
infant mortality, maternal mortality, accesss to sanitation and the ratio between doctors/physicians and people.
what is the global food security index?
The global food security index considers the availability, affordability, and quality of food. The index uses indicators uses indicators to measure food security in HIC, MIC and LIC.
what is the global hunger index?
the global hunger index rates counties on a scale of 0-100. 0 being the best score.
what are the four content indicators of the global huger index?
1- undernourishment which is measured in insignificant cal intake.
2- child wasting under the age of 5.
3- child stunting under age f 5 in hight.
4- child mortality from lack of food or harmful environment.
what can change a persons needed cal intake?
Gender, hight, exercise, age illness and genetic makeup.
define malnutrition?
malnutrition mean poor nourishment, and refers to a diet lacking or with too many nutrient.
what disease can you get from a lack of specific vitamins and minerals?
Pellagra
what are you at risk from getting when you lack protein?
kwashiorkor.
what can you obtain from a lack of cal/energy.
marasmus.
how does obesity occur?
from too many cal and too much protein in diet.
why and when does famine occur?
famine occurs when there is a long term decline in the availability of food in a region.
where might one find high rates of stunted growth in the world?
LIC like sub Sahara and South Asia.
what type of malnutrition caused stunted growth?
long term malnutrition.
where might one find wasting in the world?
LICs sub sahara and South Asia.
what type of malnutrition caused wasting?
short term.
what does FAD stand for and what does it mean?
Food availability defesite, food is just not there.
talk yourself through the nutrition transition.
1- when income increases so does meat consumption.
This is partly due to cultural shifts mostly seen in Asia where mean is seen as a luxury.
2- as people buy more mean they rely less on carbohydrates.
3- this leas to obesity.
how can we prevent the nutrition transition ad stop rapid obesity rates?
make sports more available and encourage participation.
educate on the importance of a balanced diet.
what is an example of a county with high obesity rates due to the nutrition transition?
Mexico
What does FED stand for and what does it mean?
Food entitlement defesite, food is available but people can’t afford.
what is the epidemiological transition.
the moment from CD to NCD. a period associated with a change in the major causes of death within a population due to demographic, economic, industrial sociological factors.
THE DISEASE CONTINUUM (diseases of poverty to diseases of affluence).
give examples of a CD.
covid and flu
give examples of a NCD?
parkendons and heat disease.
