F.1 measuring Food and health

Question 1

what is the name of the 17 goals made by the UN that can be helpful to reference in your answer?

Answer 1

Sustainable development goals

Question 2

what are some global patterns in health indicators?

Answer 2

infant mortality, maternal mortality, accesss to sanitation and the ratio between doctors/physicians and people.

Question 3

what is the global food security index?

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

what is the global hunger index?

Answer 4

the global hunger index rates counties on a scale of 0-100. 0 being the best score.

Question 5

what are the four content indicators of the global huger index?

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

what can change a persons needed cal intake?

Answer 6

Gender, hight, exercise, age illness and genetic makeup.

Question 7

define malnutrition?

Answer 7

malnutrition mean poor nourishment, and refers to a diet lacking or with too many nutrient.

Question 8

what disease can you get from a lack of specific vitamins and minerals?

Answer 8

Pellagra

Question 9

what are you at risk from getting when you lack protein?

Answer 9

kwashiorkor.

Question 10

what can you obtain from a lack of cal/energy.

Answer 10

marasmus.

Question 11

how does obesity occur?

Answer 11

from too many cal and too much protein in diet.

Question 12

why and when does famine occur?

Answer 12

famine occurs when there is a long term decline in the availability of food in a region.

Question 13

where might one find high rates of stunted growth in the world?

Answer 13

LIC like sub Sahara and South Asia.

Question 14

what type of malnutrition caused stunted growth?

Answer 14

long term malnutrition.

Question 15

where might one find wasting in the world?

Answer 15

LICs sub sahara and South Asia.

Question 16

what type of malnutrition caused wasting?

Answer 16

short term.

Question 17

what does FAD stand for and what does it mean?

Answer 17

Food availability defesite, food is just not there.

Question 18

talk yourself through the nutrition transition.

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

how can we prevent the nutrition transition ad stop rapid obesity rates?

Answer 19

make sports more available and encourage participation.
educate on the importance of a balanced diet.

Question 20

what is an example of a county with high obesity rates due to the nutrition transition?

Answer 20

Mexico

Question 21

What does FED stand for and what does it mean?

Answer 21

Food entitlement defesite, food is available but people can’t afford.

Question 22

what is the epidemiological transition.

Answer 22

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).

Question 23

give examples of a CD.

Answer 23

covid and flu

Question 24

give examples of a NCD?

Answer 24

parkendons and heat disease.

Question 25

what triggers the epidemiological transition?

Answer 25

an economic change in a county.

Question 26

why does a countys economy trigger the epidemiological transition?

Answer 26

more money to invest is mass production of vaccines and more money invested into reaserch and accessible healthcare.

Question 27

define the term life expectancy.

Answer 27

life expectancy refers to the number of year a person can expect to live. By definition life expectancy is based on an estimate of the average age that members of a particular population group will be when they die.

Question 28

what does the term HALE stand for and can you define it.

Answer 28

Health adjusted life expectancy refers to the equivalent number of years in full health that an individual at any given age can expect to life if exposed to age specific mortality and health status (morbidity) condition that private today.

Question 29

what are the implications of a global ageing population for disease burden?

Answer 29

more chronic disease due to leaking of the immune system and decreased physical activity and nutritional intake.

This leads to an increase in demand for for health care service and in correlation a financial pressure on movement and insurance.

Question 30

what is arable farming?

Answer 30

crop farming.

Question 31

what is pastoral farming?

Answer 31

animal farming.

Question 32

what is commercial farming and where is it often found?

Answer 32

large scale farming for profit, HICs.

Question 33

what is subsistence framing and where is is often found?

Answer 33

food farmed for yourself. LIC

Question 34

what is intensive farming and give an example of what it might intale?

Answer 34

high input, green houses.

Question 35

what is extensive farming and what might be an example.

Answer 35

low input, sheep.

Question 36

what is nomadic farming and where is it commonly found?

Answer 36

moving about in search of fertile soil. LICs.

Question 37

what is sedentary farming and what is an example of how it is practised?

Answer 37

staying in one location. practising crop rotation.

Question 38

what is cash crop and what are some examples?

Answer 38

farming for products that you only sell. e.g tobacco and coffee.