Hunger and malnutrition can't be understood as individual problems because they involve social inequality, lack of public policies, and other economic factors.

Dear Avaniendra

Although malnutrition seems to be easy to describe, there are several explanations to define it. in brief, malnutrition is over-/under-intake or having an unhealthy diet pattern. nevertheless, weight change is the best indicator of malnutrition.

individual pathology is a definition that can not consider dependable to hunger. within clinical nutrition, someone who has malnutrition can not be capable to act in these forms of activities (weakness, high inflammation and low health level). the field of individual pathology is more related to social science and personality than the medical, and nutritional factors (or at least still there is no well-homogenized population to assess the effect).

In addition, there are situations where even in a high malnourished population the nutrition can not impact the individual pathology. for example regarding the effect of economics, marasmus and kwashiorkor Article Whole body protein kinetics in marasmus and kwashiorkor duri...

in addition, there is a chance that people with individual pathology behaviours because of their financial status be at higher risk of malnutrition (the cause of malnutrition is individual pathology) while you want to assess the opposite way.

I suggest the following guideline for understanding malnutrition better: Article Diagnostic criteria for malnutrition – An ESPEN Consensus Statement

Malnutrition includes over nutrition...obesity...as well as under nutrition. It can include specific nutrients and even lead to death of of the patient.

Privatization of land and diminished role of state in social welfare has transformed hunger and malnutrition from a social problem to an individual pathology Avaniendra Chakravartty