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
fh.1 Measuring food and health is part of the Food and health geographic theme (Paper 1). The geographic inquiry for this sub-topic is: ways of measuring disparities in food and health between places
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
