STEP FORWARD INITIATIVES BY GOVERNMENT FOR IMPROVEMENT OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF HUMAN POPULATION AND THEIR HEALTH IN INDIA Abstract Malnutrition below 5 years is a very serious issue in India. It has become a challenge to The Department of Women and Child Development Authority. Malnutrition is may be due to under-nutrition or over-nutrition. The present review assesses the data available on under-nutrition and also throws a light on the management strategies applied to culminate this serious threat
suffer from malnutrition. High malnutrition level has a direct effect to the development issues and increase in poverty in regions like the Philippines. (Borgen, 2014) According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, due to the lack of nourishing food sources and nutrition education, hunger and malnutrition are still dominant in the Philippines. In fact, these problems have been linked with high rates of poverty in our country. Protein deficiency is the main reason why we have malnutrition problems
Access to Potable Water The Philippine Institute for Development Studies conducted a study last late 2008 to early 2009 about the local service delivery in the sectors of education, health and potable water and it focused in the area of Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental and the province of Agusan del Sur in Mindanao (Israel, 2009). Several studies were made regarding the accessibility of potable drinking water in the Philippines. According to Greenpeace and World Bank, one out of 5 Filipinos did
The war started out because native Cubans were revolting against Spain, which was holding on to Cuba for dear life as the remnant of a once-great empire. The Cubans’ fight for independence was brutal. 95,000 Cubans died from disease and malnutrition after Spanish general Valeriano Weyler herded Cubans into concentration camps. For this, Weyler was called “Butcher” in the American yellow press, which sold a lot of newspapers on the backs of stories about his atrocities. At last, we come to President
Developing countries are particularly more vulnerable to climate change due to their exposure to low latitude geographical region which curses them with poor rainfall availability and high temperatures. Many developing countries are located in tropical areas which experience extreme climates along with variability in monsoon pattern and high temperature. Country like India and others where rainfall occurs once in a year will be particularly vulnerable if rainfall fails thereby affecting the agricultural
General State of Philippine Bilibid Prison The New Bilibid Prison is only among the jails under the BuCOR, housing inmates twice its capacity. Considered as the most congested facility under BuCor, problems identified by the prisoners, employees, and the security, were as follows: availability of basic necessities, building and prison cell conditions, spread of diseases, and increased risk of violence all of which are brought about by congestion or where congestion plays a part in. As early as
Food prices are increasing almost every year, this increases poverty because poor people can’t afford food. Most public hospitals lack their basic needs; medical equipment are also lacking. The image above informs us more about poverty in the Philippines. 1 out of 4 Filipinos are living on less than $1.000 a day. 3 million families can’t afford to buy their food and so 21% of children under 5 years old are underweight. When it comes to education, only 51 out of 100 students who enter 1st grade are
regions, provinces, cities, municipalities, and even barangays especially in the Philippines. The Philippines is experiencing poverty since then and the government officials can't come up with a good solutions to eradicate this kind of problem. Sometimes they have a plan to lessen this problem but it is not suitable for the whole nation that's why the problem remains to the country. According to the PSA or Philippine Statistics Office (2016) the poverty incidence among Filipino families based on the
difference. The richest country has a GDP per capita that is 145 times the poorest country. The countries that are mainly suffering from poverty Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. These countries account for about 72% of Southeast Asia’s total population and roughly 50% of the poor. One of the main reasons for poverty is malnutrition. Malnutrition slows down the process of poverty alleviation. It limits human capital accumulation, reduce labor productivity growth, causes later adult disability
Comparative Analysis between the most healthy and less healthy full fat yogurts in Saudi Arabia Al Danah International School September 30, 2015 1 2 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Situation Analysis Our study mainly focuses on how healthy or less healthy different brands of full fat yoghurt are in Saudi Arabia. First up what is a yoghurt? A yoghurt is a food produced from bacterial fermentation of milk, so it is also considered a dairy product. Here in Saudi Arabia