FARE 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Iron-Deficiency Anemia, Vitamin A Deficiency, Iodine Deficiency

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: FARE 1300
• Professor: Andreas Boecker

Document Summary

Fao model for estimating number of malnourished people. Extent of undernutrition in the world lecture 6. Cut-off point: lowest acceptable per-capita availability or calories. Magic wands to enable body to produce enzymes, hormones and other substances essential for proper growth and development. Iodine, vitamin a and iron are most important in global public health terms. Their lack represents a major threat to health and development, particularly children and pregnant women. A main cause of impaired cognitive development. 54 countries are still iodine-deficient (twice as many one decade ago) 250 million pre-school children estimated to be vitamin a deficient. 250k to 500k vitamin a- deficient children become blind every year (50% mortality within 12 months) 2 billion people (50% of pregnant women; 40% of preschool children anaemic) Anaemia aggravates by worm infections, malaria and other infectious diseases. The most undernourished countries- rankings differ by measure. Example from text: 7 measures in 3 groups. Dietary intake relative to dietary requirements (total population)