UNPRGFACULTY OF MEDICINE HUMAN

INTEGRANTES:ROJAS ROJAS ELVA ROSAMUNDACA DAVILA CHRISTIANLLAUCE BALDERA MILTONVASQUEZ OBLITAS CRISTIANVASQUEZ RUIZ JONES JUAN CAMILOVILLENA HERRERA YELTSIN

DEFINITION OF MALNUTRITION

The term malnutrition refers to a pathological

condition caused by lack of intake or

absorption of nutrients

Malnutrition is, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the

leading killer of infants and young

children in developing countries

So, prevent this disease has become a priority for the World Health Organization (WHO).

What causes child malnutrition in the coast

and jungle of Perú?jungle

coast

Are immediate causes

inadequate and insufficient food consumption

Infectious diseases

lack of potable water and basic

sanitation

limited health care

structural causes

poor economic conditions of the family

the low educational level

little social investment and misuse of state

resources

political causes

STATISTICS OF MALNUTRITION IN PERU

The results of The Demographic and Family Health Survey (ENDES 2011 first semester)

It diminishes near of two percentage points

the progressive reduction of the level of the chronic malnutrition at the country.

WHO (World Health Organization) is used as standard of reference.

NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics) is used as standard of reference

23.8 % to 21.6 % in the same period

18,3 % in the ENDES 2009 to 16,6 % in the ENDES 2011

First Semester

diminishes in some over two percentage points

confirmed

when the

and

When the

According to the natural

regions

ENDES 2011 First Semester, ratifies that the prevalence of

anemia is major:

than

at the Highland (54.9 %), and at the Jungle

(50.9 %)

at the Coast (38.9 %).

COMPARATIVE VALUES BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES

OF LATIN AMERICA ON MALNUTRITION

Data from the World Food Programme (WFP) recorded over 1,000 million undernourished people worldwide, "an amount equal to the sum of the population of North America and Europe."

As detailed in the WFP, one in six people worldwide do not have enough food to be healthy and lead an active life.

"Hunger and malnutrition worldwide are considered the main risk to health, more than

AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined." 

Most Latin American countries are ranked in the first three categories of this map.

The most worrying case is that of Haiti

malnutrition recorded "very high",

more than 35 percent.

Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Bolivia, with a rate "moderately high", between 20 and 34 percent.

Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Paraguay entered in the "moderately low", with malnutrition rates of between 10 and 19 percent.

GOVERNMENT'S OBJECTIVE OF MALNUTRITION (COAST AND JUNGLE)

Reduce the prevalence of chronic malnutrition and anemia in children under 5 years,

especially in regions with greater poverty.

GOVERNMENT'S OBJECTIVE OF MALNUTRITION (COAST

AND JUNGLE)

Intervention strategy articulated public and private entities, with the

aim of overcoming poverty and chronic

malnutrition.

GOVERNMENT'S OBJECTIVE OF MALNUTRITION (COAST

AND JUNGLE)

The government target by 2012 is to reduce poverty by 30 percentage points and chronic malnutrition among children ages 5 Paying Child 9 percentage points.

PROPOSALS TO COMBAT MALNUTRITION

"Hunger is just a symptom of a very serious situation. If you do not know the diagnosis, any action to do about it is irrelevant"

• To effectively combat malnutrition requires coordinated action by all sectors of the state involved, such as the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Health or the Ministry of Women.

• Training in nutrition and

feeding: breastfeeding

Promotion.

• Welfarism (via donation of food, including milk for children, by institutions like the PRONAA or Glass of Milk)

• Best way to deal with the problem of malnutrition in the jungle is helping to restore indigenous and coastal fisheries resources and wildlife

• Promotion of agricultural projects according to socio-environmental reality Amazon.

• We must take into account the idiosyncrasies of Amazonian people with more resources to call handler farmer.