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Global Disparities in Nutrition and Health
What factors account for disparities in world nutrition?
• Failure of distribution systems
Food distribution in Mogadishu
What factors account for disparities in world nutrition?
• The inability of people to pay the cost
What factors account for disparities in world nutrition?
• Traditional cultural practices that favor males over females
• Differential neglect
Which parts of the world are the most vulnerable to hunger?
• Average daily/capita calorie consumption:
What factors account for a higher incidence of infant
mortality?
• World infant mortality
What factors account for a higher incidence of infant
mortality?• Physical health of the mother• Improper weaning
What factors account for a higher incidence of infant
mortality?• Poor sanitation• Diarrhea
What factors account for a higher incidence of infant
mortality?• Malnutrition
Marasmus can develop into Kwashiurkor
Child Mortality
World Life Expectancy at Birth
What factor accounts for the large gap between LDCs and MDCs?
Types of diseases
• Infectious– Viral– Bacterial– Parasitic
• Chronic/degenerative
• Genetic/inherited
Epidemic
Pandemic
Endemic Diseases
• endemic - a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location
A disease agent is an organism that spreads infectious diseases
hookwormvirus
bacteria
Vectored diseases are carried from one host to the next by an
intermediate host--a vector.Non-vectored diseases are spread through contact--a handshake or a
kiss.
World Distribution of Malaria
Distribution of Yellow Fever
Sleeping Sickness
Diffusion ofSleeping Sickness
Tsetse fly vectors
Areas of Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia) Risk
Dr. Snow’s Map
Life Cycle of a New Strain of Influenza Virus
• Pigs act as the host of strains from both humans and birds.
World AIDS
Chronic diseases--ongoing and/or diseases of aging
• The “epidemiological transition” occurs as a population develops and the major causes of death are chronic or degenerative diseases rather than infectious diseases.
• Heart disease, type II diabetes, cancer
Genetic diseases
• Sickle-cell anemia (African population)
• Down’s syndrome
• Phenylketonuria (European population)
• Galactosemia (milk allergy)
Geophagy
• Eating dirt to gain calcium.
• Common practice in Africa--brought to US with slavery.
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