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    ingesting the proper nutrients is also know as malnutrition. Malnutrition affects a person’s weight‚ causes disease‚ and has a negative impact on a child’s educational development. It is critical for the human body to receive enough vitamins and nutrients every day. However‚ most homeless people often eat foods that have a high fat content and small amounts of essential nutrients. According to research‚ “obesity may have replaced underweight as the new malnutrition” ("One-Third of US Homeless Are Obese.")

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    third of the world’s population lives without basic sanitation infrastructure like a toilet. Every day 4‚000 children die from illnesses like diarrhea‚ dysentery‚ and cholera caused by dirty water and unhygienic living conditions. We can’t fight malnutrition without tackling the diseases that contribute to it. As part of our integrated approach to hunger‚ we’re getting safe water‚ sanitation‚ and hygiene services to communities in need all over the world." This site also states four main water‚ sanitation

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    CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE INTRODUCTION Rationale The World Health Organization cites malnutrition as the gravest single threat to the world ’s public health. Improving nutrition is widely regarded as the most effective form of aid. And hunger is still an ongoing problem that affects more than 1.2 billion people today. The recent global economic crisis‚ fluctuations in food prices in 2006–2008‚ wars and political conflicts‚ and devastating natural disasters have deprived millions

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    Thérèse Libert Dietitian AFDN (France) Tg Murges 26 June 2012 : a key element for prevention and protection against non-communicable diseases (obesity‚ heart diseases‚ T2 diabetis …) • Spread of these diseases : inadequate nutritional intake / lack of physical activity • Since 2001‚ Public Health priority : a French nutritional policy • National programs implemented in which play a role at different levels. ·WHO 1998 : World strategy for food‚ physical activity and health ·High Council Public

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    The Social Impact of the Vietnam War Annotated Bibliography DeVry University Introduction to Humanities M M 09/29/2013 The Social Impact of the Vietnam War The Vietnam War was undoubtedly an event that had an impact on the overall culture of the American society. The hippie movement in particular was the most visible effect of that impact. It can be regarded as one of the most powerful counterculture movements in the American History. Many of its ideas and values permeated into

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    COMMON AILMENTS/DEFECTS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN DENTAL CARIES * Dental caries is an infectious‚ communicable disease‚ which causes destruction of teeth by acid-forming bacteria found in dental plaque. * Early childhood caries (ECC) is a “virulent” form of dental caries that can destroy the teeth of preschool children and toddlers. Early childhood caries can also be defined as the occurrence of any sign of dental caries on any tooth surface during the first 3 years of a child’s life. Economically

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    care. Following on from this the assignment‚ will then discuss and criticise the best nursing practice in the main themes that arose in the literature search. The main themes that will be discussed are Malnutrition‚ how malnutrition has an effect on dementia‚ Assessment Screening tools and Communication. The reasons for choosing this subject is that while participating in an online blog in university I developed an interest in this area of practice. With

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    Reducing the Burden of Illness and Infectious Diseases to Improve Human Health Introduction Madagascar is a country consisting of 18‚040‚341 people. Unfortunately‚ seventy six percent of these people live underneath the poverty line. About fifty seven percent of the people are considered extremely poor. Maternal mortality is alarmingly high‚ with thousands of unnecessary maternal deaths each year occurring as result of pregnancy related causes (“Child Survival”). Out of one thousand children

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    Food security and Millennium Development Goals in Light of the Food Security Bill in India Running a democracy with a billion people has never been easy‚ but people have always argued the working of the democracy‚ the UN millennium development goals state that by 2015‚ the world leaders have sworn to reduce hunger and extreme poverty by half‚ only two years now remain before the 2015 deadline to make substantial gains in education‚ health‚ social equity‚ environmental sustainability and international

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    Introduction Malnutrition is a global challenge in low-income and middle-income countries particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia (Shetty‚ 2002‚ Black‚ et al.‚ 2008). More than ten million children under five years of age die annually worldwide and percentage of child deaths in sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 41% and another 34% in south Asia (Black‚ et al.‚ 2003). It was estimated that more than 50% of these child deaths could be attributed to the potentiating effects of malnutrition in infectious

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