fh.1 Measuring food and health

Unit Contents

• fh.1.1 Global patterns in nutrition indicators
• fh.1.2 The nutrition transition
• fh.1.3 Global patterns in health indicators
• fh.1.4 The disease continuum and the implications of a global ageing population

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Geographic inquiry: Ways of measuring disparities in food and health between places

• Global patterns in food/nutrition indicators, including the food security index, the hunger index, calories per person/capita, indicators of malnutrition
• The nutrition transition, and associated regional variations of food consumption and nutrition choices
• Global patterns in health indicators, including health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE), infant mortality, maternal mortality, access to sanitation and the ratio between doctors/physicians and people
• The epidemiological transition, the diseases continuum (diseases of poverty to diseases of affluence), and the implications of a global ageing population for disease burden

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