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Author : Peter Svedberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : UCAL:B4527227
Author : Abubakar Sadiq Idris
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783668826946
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Health - Public Health, Northumbria University (Social Health and Wellbeing), course: Public Health Fundamentals, language: English, abstract: Malnutrition is a serious challenge posing tremendous negative impact in sub-Saharan Africa and the world in general. In view of this, the United Nations (UN) proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG2) which hopes to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and ensure sustainable food production by 2030”. Several socio-economic factors have been identified as the principal causes of malnutrition; some of these include poverty, lack of education, poor government policies, poor access to healthcare, poor access to hygienic water supply and environmental sanitation, lack of toilet facilities as well as gender inequality and corruption. However, it is important to note that all of these factors are related to each other in one way or another. Thus, in order to mitigate the continued rise in the level of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, a multifocal approach is needed. These factors should not be approached individually in the process of finding a viable solution to the scourge of malnutrition, rather they should be approached as a collective entity in the planning and implementation of government policies.
Author : Peter Svedberg
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198292685
A large share of the population in many developing countries suffer from chronic undernutrition. In this book, Professor Svedberg provides a detailed comparative study of undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the two worst affected areas, and provides crucial advice for allthose concerned in development worldwide. The book concentrates on the five challenges that undernutrition creates: what undernutrition is, who the undernourished are, where the undernourished are, when people are undernourished, and why people are undernourished. The book is divided into fiveparts: Part I introduces the main paradigms and controversies of undernutrition; Part II deals with the relationship in the individual between calorie intake/expenditure, work effort, body weight, and income; Part III assesses the method of defining and measuring undernutrition based on estimates ofgaps between calorie intake and calorie requirements for households; Part IV provides a parallel analysis of the main alternative approach to defining and measuring undernutrition, based on anthropometric assessment, mainly of young children, but also adolescents and adults; Part V analyses theconsequences and causes of anthropometric failure, as well as the related policy issues.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:477183565
Author : Todd David Benson
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896291652
Undernutrition remains a major source of human suffering and an obstacle to national economic and human development in many African countries. This report investigates undernutrition's persistence, drawing on case studies of the public response to the problem in Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda. Analyzing each nation's policymaking structures, political actors, understanding of undernutrition, and the timing of public responses, the author explains why none of these four nations has mounted an effective campaign to eliminate undernutrition. The author identifes several different causes of this shortcoming, with one underlying flaw in the various public responses standing out: a fundamental failure on the part of political leaders to see undernutrition as a grave problem that undermines development efforts in their nations. The author concludes that an effective response to undernutrition in these countries requires the formation of national advocacy coalitions that can raise public awareness of the problem, highlight policymakers' duty to ensure the nutrition of their citizens, and link proper nutrition to general national development. This report should serve as a resource for advocates, researchers, and others concerned with undernutrition in Africa.
Author : Emmanuel Skoufias,Katja Vinha,Ryoko Sato
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464813979
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the scale of undernutrition is staggering; 58 million children under the age of five are too short for their age (stunted), and 14 million weigh too little for their height (wasted). Poor diets in terms of diversity, quality, and quantity, combined with illness and poor water and sanitation facilities, are linked with deficiencies of micronutrients—such as iodine, vitamin A, and iron—associated with growth, development, and immune function. In the short term, inequities in access to the determinants of nutrition increase the incidence of undernutrition and diarrheal disease. In the long term, the chronic undernutrition of children has important consequences for individuals and societies: a high risk of stunting, impaired cognitive development, lower school attendance rates, reduced human capital attainment, and a higher risk of chronic disease and health problems in adulthood. Inequities in access to services early in life contribute to the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Recent World Bank estimates suggest that the income penalty a country incurs for not having eliminated stunting when today’s workers were children is about 9†“10 percent of gross domestic product per capita in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of the effort to date has focused on the costing, financing, and impact of nutrition-specific interventions delivered mainly through the health sector to reach the global nutrition targets for stunting, anemia, and breastfeeding, and interventions for treating wasting. However, the determinants of undernutrition are multisectoral, and the solution to undernutrition requires multisectoral approaches. An acceleration of the progress to reduce stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa requires engaging additional sectors—such as agriculture; education; social protection; and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)—to improve nutrition. This book lays the groundwork for more effective multisectoral action by analyzing and generating empirical evidence to inform the joint targeting of nutrition-sensitive interventions. Using information from 33 recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), measures are constructed to capture a child’s access to food security, care practices, health care, and WASH, to identify gaps in access among different socioeconomic groups; and to relate access to these nutrition drivers to nutrition outcomes. All Hands on Deck: Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa addresses three main questions: • Do children have inadequate access to the underlying determinants of nutrition? • What is the association between stunting and inadequate food, care practices, health, and WASH access? • Can the sectors that have the greatest impact on stunting be identified? This book provides country authorities with a holistic picture of the gaps in access to the drivers of nutrition within countries to assist them in the formulation of a more informed, evidence-based, and balanced multisectoral strategy against undernutrition.
Author : Nat J. Colletta,Jayshree Balachander,Xiaoyan Liang
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821336770
Reviews the World Bank's experience in industrial restructuring in 46 countries during the past 14 years. The study finds that for most completed public enterprise restructuring operations, sustainability of benefits was a large problem, mainly because of fragile sector reforms and inadequate governance and management. Those completed for the private sector experienced poor outcomes from inadequate attention to country economic conditions and policy distortions. To overcome such problems, the study recommends that future restructuring operations be designed and implemented to have an impact at the firm level.
Author : Headey, Derek D.,Stifel, David,You, Liangzhi,Guo, Zhe
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Reducing undernutrition requires improving access to goods and services from a wide range of economic and social sectors, including agriculture, education and health. Yet despite broad agreement on the multisectoral nature of the global burden of undernutrition, relatively little research has analyzed how different dimensions of accessibility, such as urbanization and travel times to urban centers, affect child nutrition and dietary outcomes. In this paper we study these relationships in sub-Saharan Africa, a highly rural continent still severely hindered by remoteness problems. We link spatial data on travel times to 20,000 person cities to survey data from 10,900 communities in 23 countries. We document strong negative associations between nutrition indicators and rural livelihoods, but only moderately strong associations with remoteness to cities. Moreover, the harmful effects of remoteness and rural living largely disappear once education, wealth, and social/infrastructural services indicators are added to the model. This implies that the key nutritional disadvantage of rural populations stems chiefly from social and economic poverty. Combating these problems requires either an acceleration of urbanization processes, or finding innovative cost-effective mechanisms for extending basic services to isolated rural communities.
Author : Maurice W. Schiff,Alberto Valdés
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Past studies have identified nutrition exclusively with nutrient intake. A better definition of nutrition (as the one used here) would critically affect the link between poverty and malnutrition and would affect the implications for policies designed to improve the nutritional status of the poor.
Author : Peter Svedberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 0191596957
According to research, almost one billion people suffer from undernutrition in developing countries. This book provides a detailed study of undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa, one of the worst affected areas.
Author : Marcel Rutten,André Leliveld,Dick Foeken
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047442660
Thinking about development in Africa requires an appreciation of at least two sets of ideas. It is not sufficient to stress the ubiquity of failure, malnutrition, disease, predatory states and war; one also has to recognize that important aspects of the lives of millions of ordinary people have been transformed over the last five decades. All contributions in this book give insight into the heterogeneity of poverty and development processes in Sub-Saharan Africa, and confront the ideas, concepts and assumptions that lie behind pro-poor policies with their empirical findings.
Author : Dean T. Jamison
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780821363980
Current data and trends in morbidity and mortality for the sub-Saharan Region as presented in this new edition reflect the heavy toll that HIV/AIDS has had on health indicators, leading to either a stalling or reversal of the gains made, not just for communicable disorders, but for cancers, as well as mental and neurological disorders.
Author : Ahmed, Akhter U.,Hill, Ruth Vargas,Smith, Lisa C.,Wiesmann, Doris M.,Frankenberger, Tim,Gulati, Kajal,Quabili, Wahidand,Yohannes, Yisehac
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896297708
Author : Derek Headey,David Stifel,Liangzhi You,Zhe Guo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1163582088
Author : Andrew Dabalen,Ambar Narayan,Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi,Alejandro Hoyos,Ana Abras,Sailesh Tiwari
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464803321
Early access to education, health services, safe water, and nutritious food improve the chances of a fruitful life. This book highlights the significant progress Sub-Saharan African countries have made in the past decades and the challenges that remain in ending extreme poverty and laying the foundations for shared prosperity.