MALNUTRITION According to World Food Program (WFP) statistics‚ there are 1.02 billion undernourished people in the world today. This says that one in six people do not take healthy food and suffer from malnutrition. Malnutrition can be said as a serious problem facing by all-over the world‚ especially children and pregnant women. Malnutrition can be defined as the condition in which the person do not have sufficient vitamins‚ minerals‚ and all the necessary nutrients required to be healthy. This
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MALNUTRITION Definition : lack of proper nutrition‚ caused by not having enough to eat‚ not eating enough of the right things‚ or being unable to use the food that one does eat. Insufficient intake can result in undernutrition or starvation and excessive intake can result in overnutrition and obesity. Whilst most elderly people eat quite well‚ some have a poor intake of specific nutrients. Lack of mobility will reduce their appetite. Wearing dentures that don’t fit properly or having dementia
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Matter Part A. Hunger and malnutrition in various countries of Africa have been on the increase since the 1960’s. In the 1980’s it reached a climax when over 150 million people were affected by it in one form or another. Now more than 30 million children and adults across a swath of Africa are facing a devastating hunger and malnutrition crisis. Countries like Ethiopia‚ Kenya and Zambia are among some of the regions that are strongly affected by hunger and malnutrition issues. In Kenya the prevalence
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Limitation of the study 4 1.7 Assumption of the study 5 1.8 Conceptual framework 5 1.9 Definition of terms 6 CHAPTER II: 7 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 7 2.1 Definition of malnutrition 7 2.2 Causes of malnutrition 7 2.3 Forms of protein calories malnutrition 9 2.4 Impact of malnutrition 9 2.5 Management of malnutrition 10 2.6 Prevention of malnutrition 10 CHAPTER III 11 3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 11 3.1 Introduction 11 3.2 Research design 11 3.3 Location of the study. 11 3.4 Target population 12 3.5 Sample size
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Assignment on Malnutrition Course Semester Section : : : Introduction to Public Health (PBH101) Fall 2010 03 Submitted to : Dr. Ariful Bari Chowdhury (ABy) Departments of Public Health. Submitted by Last date of Submission : : 31/10/2010 Page | 1 Table of contents Topic Page 1. Introduction 2. What is malnutrition? 3. Malnutrition and poverty 4. Causes of Malnutrition 5. Prevalence of underlying determinants of malnutrition 6. Impact of malnutrition 7. Child malnutrition:
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finished reading this sentence‚ 2.3 children have died somewhere in the world from malnutrition.” (Malnutrition Statistics‚ Para 1) All the malnutrition in the world can be solved. “The planet creates enough food to meet everyone’s needs in the world. But there are still about 925 million hungry people in the world and about 180 million preschool children that do not get the nutrition that they really need.” (Malnutrition and Hunger Paper‚ Para 1) Helping malnourished children will help improve a child’s
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Malnutrition Introduction Malnutrition is the condition that develops when the body does not get the right amount of the vitamins‚ minerals‚ and other nutrients it needs to maintain healthy tissues and organ function. Undernutrition Malnutrition occurs in people who are either undernourished or overnourished. Undernutrition is a consequence of consuming too few essential nutrients or using or excreting them more rapidly than they can be replaced. Overnutrition In the United States‚ nutritional
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Starvation is the most dangerous form of malnutrition. Starvation is caused in many ways. For example‚ it can be caused by fasting‚ famine‚ anorexia nervosa‚ catastrophic disease of the GI Tract. The GI tract is known to be the tubular passage of the mucus membrane and muscle extended about 8 meters from the mouth to the anus. Also‚ starvation can be caused by having a stroke or being put into a coma. Starvation and malnutrition are a death sentence. When someone is anorexic or starving‚ their body
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MALNUTRITION IN INDIA India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies sitting on a population of 1.241 billion [1]. Yet still‚ since its independence in 1947 majority of Indian population is either at or below the National Poverty Line. According to a report by the World Bank‚ malnutrition in India is more common than in Sub-Saharan Africa. More than a third of malnourished children live in India. The number is almost 5 times higher than that of China. Malnutrition thus has alarming implications
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feeding program is to provide targeted families and their children‚ an incentive to attend school. It is popular strategy for achieving both educational and social objective among school children‚ which includes combating and fighting hunger and malnutrition. She further said that its potential impact on education is that aside from alleviating short-term hunger among children‚ proper nutrition improves children’s cognitive functioning and attention. Better nutrition provides them better assistance
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