Health

Food systems and diets: Facing the challenges of the 21st century

Nearly 3 billion people across 193 countries have low-quality diets lacking the required vitamins and minerals and this poses serious health risks while slowing economic and development p

Publication Date: 
23/09/2016
Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition
Tags:
Consumption Patterns, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Child Health, Nutritional Diseases, Non Communicable Diseases, India, Africa, Asia, Agriculture, Vegetables, Health Effects, Food Prices, Fast Foods
Natural Disasters

North Korea floods wipe out crops, triggering crisis as winter approaches: WFP

Devastating floods in North Korea have unleashed a humanitarian crisis that may worsen sharply in the next few weeks, the United Nations World Food Programme said Friday.

Publication Date: 
16/09/2016
Japan Times (Japan)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Floods, North Korea, Agriculture, Food Security, Malnutrition
Health

Odisha men most undernourished: Annual Health Survey

Sixteen years after Naveen Patnaik assumed the state's reign, Odisha still portrays a story of abject poverty and deprivation.

Publication Date: 
16/09/2016
Ashok Pradhan
Times Of India (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Starvation, Malnutrition, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Health Effects, Nutrition, Health
Health

Malnutrition deaths over 5 months, says health minister

BHOPAL: Health minister Rustam Singh said that death of eight to 10 children due to malnutrition in Sheopur had occurred over a period of four to five months.

Publication Date: 
14/09/2016
Times Of India (Bhopal)
Tags:
Malnutrition, Madhya Pradesh, Child Health, Health Effects, Tribals, Sheopur (D), Health
Health

A growing problem, child malnutrition costs Philippines $7bn in a year

Child malnutrition cost the Philippines $7 billion or nearly 3 per cent of its GDP in one year in terms of education spending and lost productivity, while hunger-related stunting is on the rise amo

Publication Date: 
01/09/2016
Eco Business
Tags:
Health, Malnutrition, Child Health, Philippines, Children, GDP, Starvation, Nutrition
Poverty

India's 'poverty of numbers'

he number of "poor" derived by applying price adjustment to an old consumption basket, which is largely what official poverty measures have done, are very different from estimates based on actual consumption baskets that have changed over time. For instance, the share of cereals in household expenditure halved between 1993-94 and 2011-12 in rural areas. In the light of this, we ask if all expenditure would be on food, what percentage of the population would be unable to meet the prescribed calorie requirement?

Publication Date: 
27/08/2016
Gaurav Nayyar, Rohini Nayyar
Economic and Political Weekly
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61-71
Tags:
Poverty, India, Consumption Patterns, Food Security, Lifestyles, Malnutrition, Rural Poverty, Statistics
Health

Health in times of uncertainty in the eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

The eastern Mediterranean region is comprised of 22 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Since our Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010), the region has faced unrest as a result of revolutions, wars, and the so-called Arab uprisings. The objective of this study was to present the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors in the eastern Mediterranean region as of 2013.

Publication Date: 
24/08/2016
Ali H Mokdad, Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar, Farah Daoud & et al
Lancet Global Health
1-10
Tags:
Conflicts, Health Effects, Non Communicable Diseases, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Diarrhoea, Malnutrition, Indoor Air Pollution
Health

High anaemia prevalence a big challenge for Arunachal

Itanagar: The prevalence of anaemia continues to be a big challenge in Arunachal Pradesh according to India Health Report (IHR) statistics which show that 63.9% of children under the age of five an

Publication Date: 
16/08/2016
Times Of India (Guwahati)
Tags:
Arunachal, Anaemia, Children, Child Health, Health Effects, Malnutrition, Health
Health

Synergies in child nutrition: interactions of food security, health and environment, and child care

This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic environment -- on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for

Publication Date: 
15/08/2016
Emmanuel Skoufias
The World Bank
Tags:
Child Health, Food Security, Health Care, Environment, Malnutrition, Children, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Immunisation
Food Policy

Hunger a weapon of war in Syria, Yemen, Nigeria

PARIS – While grain silos in many Western countries may overflow this winter, tens of millions of people risk going without food as hunger is being used more than ever as a weapon of war.

Publication Date: 
11/08/2016
Japan Times (Japan)
Tags:
Food Security, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, Food Policy, Malnutrition, FAO, World Food Programme (WFP)

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