Geographic theme: Food and health
Unit Contents
- fh.1 Measuring food and health
- fh.2 Food systems and spread of diseases
- fh.3 Stakeholders in food and health
- fh.4 Future health and food security and sustainability
Detailed examples and case studies
Detailed example
Case study
Photography
Visual stimulus
- 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.2.1 The merits of a systems approach
- fh.2.2 Variations in food consumption
- fh.2.4 Vector-borne and water-borne diseases
- fh.3.3 Gender roles related to food and health
- fh.4.3 Ebola - Managing the disease and pandemic
Places explored
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
South America
Northern America
Eastern Asia
Southern Asia
Southern Europe
Photography
Visual stimulus
- 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.2.1 The merits of a systems approach
- fh.2.2 Variations in food consumption
- fh.2.4 Vector-borne and water-borne diseases
- fh.3.3 Gender roles related to food and health
- fh.4.3 Ebola - Managing the disease and pandemic
Podcast
Photography
Visual stimulus
- 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.2.1 The merits of a systems approach
- fh.2.2 Variations in food consumption
- fh.2.4 Vector-borne and water-borne diseases
- fh.3.3 Gender roles related to food and health
- fh.4.3 Ebola - Managing the disease and pandemic
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