Measuring food and health Flashcards
Chronic hunger
Long-term hunger caused by a lack of food over a long timescale.
Periodic hunger
Temporary hunger that is caused by a short-time decline in food intake.
Malnutrition
Having a diet that lacks proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat or not enough good-quality food.
Epidemiology
The Study of diseases.
Endemic
(Of a disease) prevalent in an area.
Epidemic
A fast-spreading outbreak of a disease.
HALE
Health-adjusted life expectancy - the length of time that an individual can expect to live based on adjustments made for years of ill year of ill health.
Food insecurity
the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
Components of food security_pg 266
The Global food security index:
Affordability
Availability
Quality and safety
The Global hunger Index
ranks countries on a 100-point scale, with 0 being the best score( no hunger) and 100 being the worst.
GHI Components indicators
Pg 271-272
Undernourishment_( The share of the population with insufficient caloric intake)
Child wasting_(That is, low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition-under the age of 5)
Child stunting _(that is a low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition- under the age of 5)
Child Mortality_The mortality rate of children under the age of %5)
GHI Dimensions
Inadequate food supply_FAO.
Child undernutrition_UNICEF, WHO, World Bank.
Child mortality_ IGME.
Child mortality rates
The probability per 1000 births that a child will die before reaching the age of 5.
N(children deaths under 5 of age)/ N(Children under 5 of age) x 1000
Infant mortality rates
is the number of deaths in the children under the age of 1 per 1000 live births.
Total N of deaths of children(under age 1)/Total number of live births. x 1000
Maternal Mortality rate(MMR)
is the annual number of female deaths per 100, 000 live births.
