Programs against micronutrient malnutrition: ending hidden hunger
| Autor: | G. F. Maberly, F. L. Trowbridge, R. Yip, K. M. Sullivan, Clive E. West |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Gerontology
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Economic growth productivity Patient Advocacy Global Health Risk Factors medicine Global health Prevalence Humans Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Child cognitive function VLAG Human Nutrition & Health Marketing of Health Services Anemia Hypochromic Food security Poverty business.industry Vitamin A Deficiency food Public health Communication Humane Voeding & Gezondheid Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant Newborn International health Infant micronutrient malnutrition General Medicine medicine.disease infant mortality Trace Elements Malnutrition Child Preschool Population Surveillance Food Fortified Famine Female business International development Deficiency Diseases Iodine |
| Zdroj: | Annual Review of Public Health 15 (1994) Annual Review of Public Health, 15, 277-301 |
| ISSN: | 0163-7525 |
| Popis: | An adequate intake of the micronutrients iodine vitamin A and iron is of immense importance to global development. Prevention of these nutrient deficiencies is potentially the most important achievable international health goal of the decade conceivably exceeding the impact of the global eradication of smallpox in the 1970s. While prevention of micronutrient malnutrition (MM) is no panacea for such ills of the Third World as famine AIDS political strife and poverty the normal intellectual functioning and well-being associated with micronutrient sufficiency may be essential to long-term resolution of these national and regional problems. Programs to eliminate MM cannot be separated from other national nutrition programs such as food production food security and the elimination of protein-energy malnutrition or isolated from other major public health or development issues. Success requires the combined efforts of technical experts food producers and marketers of improved products and the policy makers for decisions regarding public health interventions. The relative simplicity and low cost of the interventions and their enormous potential benefit to nations may capture the imagination of policy makers and help raise other nutrition and health issues on the scale of national development priorities. This article reviews the nature and magnitude of the problem of MM and discusses possible strategies for agencies and countries who are committed to its sustained elimination. (excerpt) |
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