Global Nutrition Flashcards
1
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Millennium Development Goals
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- Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger
- Promote gender equality
- Reduce child mortality by 2/3
- Improve maternal health
2
Q
What did MDG not make enough on?
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- Hunger
- Sanitation
- Environmental sustainability
- Nutritional indicators requiring social & behavioral change
3
Q
Number of hungry people in 2010?
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- 1 in 7
- 925 M (13% of world population)
4
Q
Why the success for health?
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- Repeated message: health essential for development
- Focused on short list of outcomes
- Annual measurement and reporting
- Donor organizations prioritized investments based on the MDG
5
Q
5 P’s for sustainable development goals
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- People
- Planet
- Peace
- Partnership
- Prosperity
6
Q
Who is at risk for malnutrition
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- Women of reproductive age
- Infants
- Children (Under 5)
7
Q
First 1000 days matter
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- promote pregnancy through child’s 2nd birthday
- Find that growth falters within first 2 yrs from 2 months onwards)
8
Q
What underlies these nutrition issues
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- Ineffective or unstable govt & programs
- poor infrastructure
- isolation
- income poverty
- inadequate health care
9
Q
immediate causes of malnutrition
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- inadequate intake
- monotonous diet
- food insecurity
- disease/illness
Maternal & child undernutrition
10
Q
Under-nutrition
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- Short term consequences: morbidity, mortality, disability
- Long term consequences (limited adult size, limited intellectual capacity, economic productivity, reproductive performance, chronic dx)
11
Q
Transmission of stunting
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- South central asia; 10%
12
Q
The impoverished gut: A triple burden
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- Diarrhea/ EE (environmental enteropathy)
- Stunting
- Chronic disease
13
Q
EBF
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- Infant (0-2 mo) not EBF is 23 x more likely to die of diarrhea
- Single most important factor in prevention of deaths in
