Malnutrition

Malnutrition - insufficiency of one or more nutritional elements necessary for health and well-being. Primary malnutrition is caused by the lack of essential foodstuffs—usually vitamins, minerals, or proteins—in the diet. In some areas of the world a poor economy or such regional conditions as drought or overpopulation cause a scarcity of certain foodstuffs, and a certain portion of Read More...

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Nutrition and Poverty
by S. R. Osmani. 370 pgs.

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This work addresses issues arising from the definition and measurement of poverty in terms of nutritional status. A range of issues are covered, focusing on the differing views and perceptions of the related questions of assessing poverty and nutritional status. Possible definitions of a reference standard are discussed as well as energy deprivation, anthropometric measurement, and gender bias.

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WIDER

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

ABBREVIATIONS

1: Introduction

2: Undernutrition: Measurement and Implications

2.1 INTRODUCTION

2.6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

3.1 INTRODUCTION

3: Assessing Undernutrition: The Need for a Reconceptualization

3.5 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

4.1 INTRODUCTION

4: Undernutrition: Concepts, Measurements, and Policy Implications

4.5 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

5: On Some Controversies in the Measurement of Undernutrition

5.1 INTRODUCTION

5.5 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX: DEDUCING AUTOCORRELATION IN THE CALORIE INTAKE OF A REFERENCE- TYPE PERSON

6.1 INTRODUCTION

6 Measuring Undernutrition with Variable Calorie Requirements

6.7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

7.1 INTRODUCTION

7: Issues in the Measurement of Undernutrition

7.6 CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX

8: Anthropometric Measures of Nutritional Status in Industrialized Societies: Europe and North America Since 1750

8.1 INTRODUCTION

8.6 CONCLUSIONS

9 Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger: Famines, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates

9.7 CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX

10 Intra-Household Allocation of Nutrients and Gender Effects: A Survey of Structural and Reduced-Form Estimates

10.1 INTRODUCTION

10.5 CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

INDEX OF NAMES

SUBJECT INDEX
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Social Consequences of Malnutrition, in Social Work
by Michael M. O. Seipel. 10 pgs.

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An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution (Part IV "Undernourishment and Destitution")
by Partha Dasgupta. 662 pgs.

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An interdisciplinary book by one of the most respected scholars in what is broadly development economics but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophical research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science, and anthropology. It has been widely recognized as a seminal work presenting a wide-ranging description of the causes and remedies of poverty and undernourishment, and addressing the current debate over methods of estimating their incidence.

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Praise for an Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution

To the Memory of My Father, Amiya Dasgupta

Preface

Contents

Part I: Well-Being: Theory and Realization

1: The Commodity Basis of Well-Being

2: Political Morality and the State

3: The Objects of Social Contracts

4: Well-Being: from Theory to Measurement

5: The Realization of Well-Being

Appendix: Political and Civil Rights Indices

Part II: Allocation of Resources Among Households: The Standard Theory

6: Resource Allocation Mechanisms

6: Public Goods and Common-Property Resources

7: Decentralization and Central Guidance

7: Real National Income as a Measure of General Well-Being

8: Uncertainty, Insurance, and Social Norms

Part III: The Household and Its Setting: Extensions of the Standard Theory

9: Land, Labour, Savings, and Credit

9: Households and Credit Constraints

10: Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base

10: Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy

11: Food, Care, and Work: The Household as an Allocation Mechanism

11: Axiomatic Bargaining Theory

12: Fertility and Resources: The Household as a Reproductive Unit

12: Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions

13: Population and Savings: Normative Considerations

13: Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World

Part IV: Undernourishment and Destitution

14: Food Needs and Work Capacity

15: Adaptation to Undernourishment

16: Inequality, Malnutrition, and the Disfranchised

16: Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity

17: Incentives and Development Policies

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Index of Names

Index of Subjects
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World Population, Agriculture and Malnutrition, in World Watch
by David Pimentel, Anne Wilson. 4 pgs.

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Escaping Hunger, Escaping Excess, in World Watch
by Gary Gardner, Brian Halweil. 12 pgs.

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Psychology and the Developing World (Chap. 13 "Combating Malnutrition in the Developing World")
by Stuart C. Carr, John F. Schumaker. 242 pgs.

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Previous leading commentators on the development of psychology in the Third World have conceived of three major stages: an attempt to assimilate Western psychology, with predictably negative results; the study of indigenous constructs, with more relevant applications; and, finally, transcending stage one and stage two to choose theories and methods on their applied merit alone. Psychology and the Developing World has been assembled to document how close psychology has come to researching that stage. Contributors were carefully selected to provide a unique overview of the latest applications of the discipline as a whole. Their work reveals how psychology is being applied to educational needs, management needs, and health needs. This book shows how development studies and allied disciplines cannot ignore psychology's potential for the Third World.

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Introduction

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS

1: History of Psychology in Developing Countries

2: From Sustainable Change to Incremental Improvement: The Psychology of Community Rehabilitation

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

3: Psychological Research Methods in Developing Countries

II EDUCATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

4: Training for Developing-world Psychologists: Can It Be Better than the Psychology?

5: Cultural Organization of Human Development within the Family Context

6: Educational Selection in Developing Countries

7: Using Social Science for Literacy Work in Developing Countries

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

8: Rethinking the Problem of Street Children: Parallel Causes and Interventions

III SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

9: Social Psychology and the Management of Aid

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

10: The Latin American Experience in Community Social Psychology

11: Work Motivation and Developing Nations: A Systems Approach

12: Marketing Psychology in Developing Countries

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

IV HEALTH AND WELFARE PSYCHOLOGY

13: Combating Malnutrition in the Developing World

14: Children, War, and Psychological Intervention

15: Psycho-social Care for AIDS Patients in Developing Countries

17: Toward an Ecopsychology for Sustainable Development

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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List of Contributors
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Population and Poverty in the Developing World (Chap. 4 "Coping with Poverty: The Biological Impact of Nutrition Insecurity")
by Massimo Livi-Bacci, Gustavo De Santis. 312 pgs.

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The increasing gap between developed and developing world will be one of the most important themes of the 21st century. The contributions contained in this volume take a multidisciplinary approach to the problem, offering a comprehensive review of the theoretical issues and empirical findings that relate to the complex and multidirectional link between poverty and demographic behaviours and outcomes in the contemporary developing world. The starting point of the volume is an exact definition of poverty. The contributors go on to analyse in the detail its causes and effects, both at the micro and macro level, concentrating on those factors and consequences which relate more directly to the demographic sphere. Population growth, household structure and labour, fertility, AIDS, urbanization, migration, and mortality are amongst the areas covered, with the major themes discussed and elaborated in an introductory overview chapter.

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Contents

List of Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

1: Introduction

2: Poverty and the 'Population Problem'

Conclusion

3: Population and Poverty How Do They Interact?

Conclusion

4: Coping with Poverty the Biological Impact of Nutrition Insecurity

Conclusions

5: Famine, Demography, and Endemic Poverty

Introduction

Conclusion

Introduction

6: Household Structure and Poverty: What Are the Connections?

7: High Fertility and Short Birth Spacing: The Poverty Consequences of Family-Building Patterns

Introduction

Conclusion

8: The Social Implications of Adolescent Fertility

Introduction

9: Poverty and Aids the Vicious Circle

Introduction

Conclusion

Introduction

10: Household Labour Allocation and Mobility in Times of Crisis

Conclusion

Introduction

11: Rapid Urbanization and the Urban Environment

Some Conclusions

Introduction

12: The Transition's Population Crisis: Nuptiality, Fertility, and Mortality Changes in Severely Distressed Economies

References

Index
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The Real Cost of Hunger, in UN Chronicle
by George McGovern. 4 pgs.

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Famine in Peasant Societies (Includes discussion of malnutrition in multiple chapters)
by Ronald E. Seavoy. 484 pgs.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Economics and Economic History

Contents

Figures

Preface

Introduction

NOTES

1: General Characteristics of Peasant Societies

NOTES

2: English Peasant Society from the Domesday Survey to the Mid- Eighteenth Century

INTRODUCTION

NOTES

3: Indonesian Subsistence Culture

NOTES

4: The Indian Famine of 1876-1879: An Analysis of the Causes of Periodic Peacetime Famines

INTRODUCTION

CONCLUSION

NOTES

5: The Commercialization of Irish Agriculture: The Great Famine and Its Aftermath

NOTES

6: The Failure of Economics to Describe and Analyze Subsistence Agriculture

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7: Conclusion

NOTES

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Malnutrition Is Third World Brain Drain, in The Washington Times
by Ben Barber. 1 pgs.

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Children of the Urban Poor: The Sociocultural Environment of Growth, Development, and Malnutrition in Guatemala City
by Francis E. Johnston, Setha M. Low. 192 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Sociocultural, Political, and Economic Context of Malnutrition and Child Development in Guatemala

2: An Ecological Approach to the Study of the Environments of the Urban Poor

3: An Urban Ethnography of El Progreso

4: Patterns of Socioeconomic Variability and Home Stimulation

5: Physical Growth and Nutritional Status of the Children of El Progreso

6: The Socioeconomic Context of Physical Growth in El Progreso

7: The Ecology of Mental Development and School Performance

Introduction

8: The Domestic Economy of Malnutrition

9: Strategies for Change

Appendix: Study Design

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