World wide malnutrition
1983
Habicht, Jean-Pierre
Four major causes of malnutrition and recommended approaches to removing them are listed. 1) Poverty countermeasures include: increasing income and productivity, reducing demand on income by family planning or decreasing expenditures; providing food and nutrients; enforcing rationing; and reducing food costs. 2) Shortage of nutritious foods. Alleviate this problem by: improving the available diet; developing new food products; manufacturing new processed foods, and importing more foods. 3) Ignorance. Rectify this problem through education and improved health care. 4) Sickness. Immunize against disease and reduce the severity and duration of illnesses. Several of these measures can take place simultaneously, and intervention can occur at a number of points. Proper nutrition can prevent anemia, blindness, goiter and cretinism. The health team can deliver services, tools and skills families need for primary health care. (kbc)
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