Determinants of Food Insecurity Flashcards

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When was the UNICEF framework determined?

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  • Around 20 years ago

- Result of a long discussion concerning research about child undernutrition and child mortality

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What did UNICEF recognize for the first time in the report concerning their framework?

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That undernutrition remained the main cause for child mortality in the world

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What are the two components of malnutrition?

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  • Undernutrition

- Overnutrition

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According to the UNICEF framework, what are the three types of causes for malnutrition, disability, morbidity and death?

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  • Basic causes
  • Underlying causes
  • Immediate causes
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What are the two types of immediate causes?

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  • Inadequate Diet

- Disease

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How are an inadequate diet and disease interrelated?

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  • Children who are sick lose their appetite

- If the diet is inadequate, the child is more prone to illness

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What are the three underlying causes?

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  • Inadequate household food security
  • Inadequate care
  • Inadequate services and unhealthy environment
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What may inadequate care refer to?

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  • Hygiene
  • Feeding
  • Psychological and social support for cognitive and physical development
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What are the two basic causes?

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  • Lack of capital

- Social, economical, and political context

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What are the five types of capital?

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  • Financial
  • Human
  • Physical
  • Social
  • Natural
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What is the medicalization of undernutrition? What is the problem?

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  • Approaches that deal with undernutrition using medical approaches (supplements)
  • These approaches are NOT sustainable
  • The basic causes MUST be addressed for sustainability
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What are the three major components of the Determinants of Food Security of Australian Children?

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  • Food availability
  • Food access
  • Food utilization
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The sizes of the components of the Determinants of Food Security of Australian Children depends on what?

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On the number of STATEMENTS by the total interviewees

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14
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Which sub-component was mentioned the most in the Determinants of Food Security of Australian Children?

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Nutrition knowledge and cooking skills

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Where is low nutritional knowledge found?

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  • In impoverished, low-income populations

- People didn’t know how to slice baguette from Panera

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What are constitutional factors in the Determinants of Health?

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  • Age
  • Sex
  • Other constitutional factors (cannot change)
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What are the effects of individual lifestyle factors? Give an example.

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  • Might attenuate or worsen the impact of constitutional factors
  • Ex: you are aging, but you live a healthy lifestyle.
18
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What are the five layers of the determinants of health?

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  • Constitutional factors
  • Individual lifestyle factors
  • Social and community networks
  • Living and working conditions
  • General socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental conditions
19
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What are social and community networks?

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  • Gyms
  • Parks
  • Roads
  • Safe environment to adapt a healthy lifestyle
20
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What are living and working conditions?

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  • Agriculture and food production
  • Education
  • Work environment
  • Unemployment
  • Water and sanitation
  • Health services
  • Housing
21
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How does climate change affect food availability?

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  • Flood and/or drought
  • Natural disasters
  • More pests (as temperatures increase)
22
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How does climate change affect food access?

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  • Lower agricultural output means lower incomes of farmers
  • Increase in food prices
  • Lower physical access
23
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How does climate change affect food utilization?

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  • Lower food quality
  • Low access to clean water (contamination of water)
  • Increased vulnerability to disease
24
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How does climate change affect food stability?

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  • Unpredictable weather conditions
  • Damaged infrastructure
  • Increasing economic challenges
25
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How will climate change affect crops by 2050?

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Decline in yields for eight major crops across Africa and South Asia

26
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How will climate change affect marine fisheries by 2050?

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  • Fisheries yield decreases in the tropics (40%)

- Fisheries increase in higher latitudes

27
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What may climate change affect in the North?

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Traditional foods may disappear

28
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What are the consequences of heat and water passing critical thresholds?

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  • Temperature increase (4oC) endangers ability of farms and ecosystems to adapt
  • Water cycles will be very different and less predictable (sea levels rise, glaciers melt)
29
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Which country will undergo extreme water stress by 2050?

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US

30
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How many hectares are lost annually due to drought and desertification?

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12 million

31
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Emerging economies are “hot-spots” for __________.

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foodborne diseases

32
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How does urbanization contribute to food-borne diseases?

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  • More demand for risky foods (e.g. animal source foods)
  • Bigger markets: longer, complex food chains that are more difficult to control for contamination
  • Rapidly intensifying agriculture
33
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How does low-levels of biosecurity contribute to food-borne diseases?

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  • Reliance on veterinary drugs to mask poor husbandry

- Unsanitary slaughter, processing, retail facilities (especially in South East Asia)

34
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How do high-risk of pathogens contribute to food-borne diseases?

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  • Farms close to industrial pollution
  • Use of graywater
  • Poor livestock waste management
35
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How does lagging governance systems contribute to food-borne diseases?

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  • Lack of traceability
  • Poorly regulated intensification
  • More demand for imported, processed foods
36
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What are the four agriculture-related risks for food-borne diseases?

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  • Urbanization
  • Low levels of biosecurity
  • High-risk of pathogens
  • Lagging governance systems
37
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The % of hunger and undernutrition increasingly concentrated in _________ countries.

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conflict-affected

38
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What factors spike the increase risk of civil conflict?

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  • Climate change
  • Epidemics
  • Food prices
39
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What is the most direct determinant of food insecurity?

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Poverty

40
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How does Guatemala compare to Latin America in terms of the Global Hunger Index by IFPRI and the Global Food Security Index by the Economist?

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There is a gap between both countries in each index

41
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How is poverty usually measured?

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By income or expenditure

42
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What dimensions does the multidimensional poverty assessment incorporates (apart from income and expenditure)?

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  • Housing
  • Food
  • Employment
  • Education