malnutrition

Nutritional deficiencies

Diarrhea?

Child malnutrition, Afghanistan.

A. Famine, hunger and poverty

Noting with concern the acute malnutrition that is associated with humanitarian emergency situation and the chronic malnutrition that impedes sustainable development,

Malnutrition makes children particularly vulnerable to diseases.

But malnutrition is more than that.

Deficient nutritional status of children expressed as stunting and wasting.

Desertification contributed to poverty, hunger, disease and food insecurity.

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Undernourishment became prevalent, particularly in the less wealthy countries.

Severe malnutrition in early childhood harms cognitive development.

28. Another major cause of morbidity is malnutrition.

One third of children who die before the age of 5 die from malnutrition.

Proof We have war, recession, hunger, poverty, starvation, illness.

Besides the human suffering, the economic costs of malnutrition are huge according to the World Bank, countries where malnutrition is most prevalent lose, on average, between 2 and 3 of their GDP.

There is massive disease, low life expectancy, high malnutrition, and low school attendance.

The cause of death was a combination of malnutrition, pneumonia, a bronchial condition and throat cancer.

Hunger and starvation began to claim thousands of lives in the late 1970s.

Food a further intensification of agriculture to meet the demand for grain for animal feed.

Undernourishment, malnutrition, crop failures, and food scarcities have occurred, but there have been no famines.

Widespread malnutrition greatly increased the risk of children dying from measles or other preventable diseases.

quot Stressing with concern that hunger and malnutrition have been increasing in many countries, particularly in Africa,

Yet malnutrition in mothers and their young children will claim 3.5 million lives this year.

Malnutrition kills an innocent child every five seconds, and is responsible for 11 of the global burden of disease.

Even where famine has been prevented, chronic hunger is common.

Other factors such as early marriage of girls, poor nutrition among women and gender inequality increase maternal risk.

The research results clearly indicate that, among the adult population of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is no malnutrition.

Poverty and poor nutrition among indigenous children are other factors that often limit school attendance.

Those who survive the effects of malnutrition are less productive physical and mental impairment means children benefit less from education.

More than one billion people trapped by poverty could not be rescued from their plight unless issues such as malnutrition, disease and illiteracy, which were both causes and symptoms of poverty, were also addressed.

He also said that malnutrition was linked with poverty and efforts were being made to raise the level of household income.

And the surprising thing was that the list was very similar with malnutrition and diseases at the top and climate change at the bottom.

In Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, millions of people are facing a severe humanitarian crisis, widespread hunger and chronic malnutrition.

One could not be oblivious to the situation of African children. In Africa, the other problems that could afflict children were compounded by poverty, malnutrition and AIDS.

Bombings and conflicts, malnutrition, poverty, treatable diseases, child labour and sexual abuse cause them great suffering and death.

They include diarrhoeal diseases, acute respiratory infections, undernutrition, different forms of child abuse and poor conditions of women.

Malnutrition continues to be a major public health problem, particularly in the prevailing situation of economic crisis and pressures from refugees and displaced persons.

It is not necessary to restate the gruesome statistics of the conditions of the poor the high mortality rates, the malnutrition, the inadequate health facilities, ignorance and poor housing.

Obasanjo has called on Muslim farmers in the area to cull their birds, a key source of protein in a region where malnutrition is a constant threat.

The most prevalent diseases continue to be malaria, malnutrition, diarrhoea, measles, respiratory infections, tuberculosis, worm infections, scabies and sexually transmitted diseases including HIV AIDS.

23. Factors such as environmental degradation, malnutrition, hygiene and limited access to family means affected mothers.

Agricultural degradation and deforestation have promoted drought and soil erosion, and made malnutrition and famine increasingly familiar occurrences in certain regions.

Such a reversal would reduce hunger, poverty, and malnutrition help protect our planet s natural resources and slow the emission of greenhouse gases from agriculture.