1. REDUCING MALNUTRITION
CREATED BY:-
1.SAGAR MOHNANI
2.GAURANGI AGRAWAL
3.ANUBHUTI CHANDEL
4.DIVYA SAHASRABUDHEY
5.ANUJ AGARWAL
HINDUSTAN COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
2. CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION
Malnutrition is caused by a lack of
nutrients in your diet.
This is either due to an inadequate
diet or problems absorbing
nutrients from food. Some reasons
why this might occur are listed
below.
Malnutrition affects billions of
children and adults in the
developing world. It is the
single biggest contributor to
child mortality, and is
implicated in the deaths of
almost 10,000 children under
five years of age every day.
Hundreds of thousands of
children go blind and even
die each year because they
lack adequate amounts of
vitamin A in the food they
eat.
3. REASONS FOR SELECTING THE TOPIC
One-third of all child deaths
are related to under
nutrition, which kills a child
every ten seconds – more
than HIV, tuberculosis and
malaria combined
Nearly two billion people
suffer from malnutrition
caused by a lack of basic
nutrients in their food.
Malnutrition stunts both
physical and mental
health, causes blindness.
4. PROPOSED SOLUTION
We dedicate ourselves to reducing
malnutrition by providing low-cost
vitamin and mineral supplements to
millions of the most hard-to-reach,
deeply vulnerable people around the
world, and by encouraging people and
communities to make simple and
inexpensive changes to their food
production and consumption that
collectively result in saving the sight and
lives of millions of people worldwide
Role of actors
This summary may be of use to
members of local and national
governments, policy-makers,
and health professionals. How
these approaches are designed
and implemented depends
on the particular access barriers
that are present. The
approaches should be
coordinated with financing
mechanisms
for universal access
5. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SOLUTION
Improvements in the
catering service and
nutrition education
provision in 2000, and
the implementation of a
nutrition screening tool
and ‘Better Hospital
Food’ in 2003.
Integration
across the
continuum of
care
.PMNCH, WHO, Aga Khan
University (2011). Essential
Interventions,
Commodities and
Guidelines for
Reproductive, Maternal,
Newborn and Child Health
APPROACH RESOURCES
Integration
with
non-health
sectors
.Canadian Ministry of
Health (2007). Crossing
sectors – experiences in
inter-sector al action,
public
policy and health
6. SOURCE OF FUNDING
Abolish user fees for
essential health services. If
not
financially viable to eliminate
fees across the health
system, at least do so on a
targeted basis, such as for
the poor and other
vulnerable groups, or for
facilities at
the primary health level or in
rural areas
Establish a cash transfer system –
conditional or unconditional – to
support access to transport or loss
of income incurred through
health-seeking behaviour. If
conditional, carefully assess the
recipient population to
understand basic barriers to care
and to establish realistic
compliance targets, useful
structures of reimbursement and
potential non-health sector
partnerships
8. IMPACT OF THE SOLUTION
Conventional methods of classifying causes of death suggest that about 70% of the
deaths of children (aged 0-4 years) worldwide are due to diarrhoeal illness, acute
respiratory infection, malaria, and diseases.The role of malnutrition in child mortality
is not revealed by these conventional methods, despite the long-standing recognition
of the synergism between malnutrition and infectious diseases.This paper describes a
recently-developed epidemiological method to estimate the percentage of child
deaths (aged 6-59 months) which could be attributed to the potentiating effects of
malnutrition in infectious disease.The results from 53 developing countries with
nationally representative data on child weight-for-age indicate that 56% of child
deaths were attributable to malnutrition's potentiating effects, and 83% of these were
attributable to mild-to-moderate as opposed to severe malnutrition. For individual
countries, malnutrition's total potentiating effects on mortality ranged from 13% to
66%, with at least three-quarters of this arising from mild-to-moderate malnutrition in
each case.These results show that malnutrition has a far more powerful impact on
child mortality than is generally appreciated, and suggest that strategies involving
only the screening and treatment of the severely malnourished will do little to address
this impact.The methodology provided in this paper makes it possible to estimate the
effects of malnutrition on child mortality in any population for which prevalence data
exist.