Option F.1 Geo Flashcards

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Food Security

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QAAS (quality, availability, affordability, security)

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Calorie Intake

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Number of calories a person consumes kcals/day

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3
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Global Hunger Index (GHI)

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Measure prevalence of hunger form 0-100 by undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting, and child mortality

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Child wasting

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Low weight for age

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5
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Child stunting

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Low height for age

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Global Food Security Index (GFSI)

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Measures food security with QAAS on a scale from 0-100

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7
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Malnutrition

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Poor diet; too much or not enough nutrition

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8
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Macros

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carbs, proteins, fats

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9
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Micros

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minerals & elements

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10
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Marasmus

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Not enough energy in diet

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11
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Kwashiorkor

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Not enough protein in diet

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12
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Nutritional Transition

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Shift in consumption patterns associated with economic developments (i.e LIC derive food from cheap carbohydrates -> child wasting, HIC derive food from proteins, fats and carbs -> obesity

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Heath Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)

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Indicates number of expected years to live in health/high quality of life by combing age & sex specific mortality data

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Infant mortality

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number of deaths >1 year per 1000 live births

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15
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Child mortality

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number of deaths >5 years per 1000 live births

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16
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Maternal mortality

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number of maternal deaths per 100,000

17
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Access to sanitation

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  1. Physically accessible to everyone
  2. running water, toiles & sinks, waste management
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Epidemiological transition

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Shift from CD’S (communicable diseases) to NCD’S (non communicable disease) within a country

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Epidemiological transition stages

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  1. pestilence & famine
  2. receding pandemics
  3. degenerative/chronic diseases
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Disease continuum

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diseases of poverty (cholera) to diseases of affluence (depression)

21
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Vectors

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agents which transmit infection from source to human/animal but are uneffected

22
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Zoonoses

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diseases passed from infected animals to humans

23
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Commercial agriculture

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products grown at large scale; sold for profit

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Subsistence agriculture

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products eaten by cultivators

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Intensive farming
farming with high inputs & high yields per unit of area
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Extensive farming
farming with low inputs or low yields per unit of area
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Systems
Input -> Process -> Output
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Energy efficiency ratio (ERR)
measure of inputs against outputs
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Water footprint
measure of volume of water used in human activities/product
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Virtual water
volume of water embedded in product
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Food availability deficit (FAD)
local food shortages caused by physical factors leading to an increase in hunger
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Food entitlement deficit (FED)
food shortages caused by political-economic factors; distribution & production (increase in hunger)
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Expansion diffusion
disease diffuses from source outwards
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Relocation diffusion
disease spreads into new area; leaving behind origin
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Contagious diffusion
disease spreads via direct contact
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Hierarchal diffusion
spread of disease in ordered sequence; i.e rural to urban
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Network diffusion
spread of disease via transportation/social networks
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The Green Revolution
1960/70's drastic increase in food production bc selective breeding; high yield crop varieties