Malnutrition and obesity

different ways to look at health and social understanding, malnutrition can be starvation, poor diet and generally wrong sort of food ~ obesity rates of children are rising among children and are linked to lack of exercise, poor diets of fast foods, high fat content and cheap meals ~ in the UK 1 in 10 children are considered as obese I the age range 2 - 10 years
Anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes spent time in Brazil in the slum areas working with poor women and their children ~ infant mortality rate is high, due to lack of food, diarrhoea, infections ~ mothers are aware of causes but poverty forces them to make choices such as go to work and leave children unsupervised, without care or food.
china has seen increase in obese children ~ this is because they are one child they are doforbidden to have more than ted on by grandparents and may over indulge them
obesity I children has become a pressing medical problem, studies have shown children are watching more TV, lack in exercise or eat poor quality food
however for some there is less concern with issues as medical problems and instead think about how the issue came about in the early 21st century. de Vries relates modern obesity to wider issue on how beauty and physical attractiveness are viewed in contemporary society ~ she claims there is shift in what is considered plump to cuddly or thin ~ even though being thin and underweight can cause health problems too it is not considered as urgent as being over weight ~ she argues it may have more to do with social outlook on people who may be classed as lazy, greedy or feckless.
another aspect of ill-health and poverty is between families, where recourses may shared out in order of ages, siblings, gender, birth order or perceived health ~ gender is most striking as girls tend to suffer from malnutrition more than boys, often have reduce health care access and have higher rate of mortality in many parts of the world
high levels of ill health are not found through out the world but are mainly in poorer parts of the world this also varies regionally ~ there is now evidence that social inequality go hand in hand with ill-health and access to health care across nations this is seen through infant/child mortality rates
while some countries have been able to reduce numbers of infant deaths because they have a national commitment to invest in basic social services that benefit child and mother
the children die because of lack of support from government or health care services ~ parents feel helpless but do not always invest emotional energy as they do not trust children to survive some feel children do not have will to live and they become passive but S.Hughes feels this is how they learn to cope with high death rate of their children which happen because of poverty and social inequality

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E212 Note on Achieving health for Children - created from Mind Map, created by Sally Cavaglieri on 10/01/2013.

Achieving health for Children - created from Mind Map