Nutrition is a indicator of poverty as it comes under the dimension of poverty i.e 'health'. How nutritional status of a particular community or a particular respondent can be calculated? What will be the criteria or on what basis we will do survey.
Dear resercher. I believe that the raltuon between notrition and poverty is multifatorial and hard to evaluate. Nowadays rich people can get malnourished ( desease realated conditions) and poor pepople can became obese as well ( high consume of fat or sugars which is available for reasonable price). Even though, ASPEN and ESPEN have create 2 consensus for malnutrition tha you can use. Best regards
Dear Aparna,
first of all: a holistic assessment of nutritional status is a complex topic.
The nutritional status depends on recommended energy intake (in the narrower sense of a well-balanced energy status), macronutrient and micronutrient intakes and liquid intake.
The quantification of energy intake per capita as well as the protein and carbohydrate intakes per capita could be first marker of nutritional status.
Associated with micronutrient intake is carbohydrate quality (i.e. whole grain products).
For micronutrient assessment: nutrient density (micronutrient amount in mg / 100 kcal or kJ) is a valuable marker.
Further criteria are food supply and food security and related markers.
Also good socio-economic status and education are correlated with all-balanced nutritional status.
There are several possibilities to assess the nutritional status of a community.
1. aggregate data from national or international databases in terms of food supply (i.e. FAO, FAOSTAT)
2. publications or data about prevalence of malnutrition (= undernutrition, overnutrition)
3. antropometric data like BMI, weight-to-hight (esp. children)...
4. more labour.intensiv: clinical examinations and bio-chemical testings
5. It exists some "tools" which can be used for malnutrition assessement, ie. Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST): http://www.bapen.org.uk/pdfs/must/must_full.pdf
Here you find some helpful sources:
http://de.slideshare.net/soharashed/assessment-of-nutritional-status
http://de.slideshare.net/Raza_Ali/nutritional-assessment-of-community-6722650?related=1
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277607454_Micronutrient_intake_during_pregnancy_is_a_function_of_carbohydrate_quality
Remark: Obesity could be both a marker of wealth and poverty...this is to be discussed...
With best regards,
Nicolas Ting
Nutritional Scientist
Cologne, Germany
Article Micronutrient intake during pregnancy is a function of carbo...
Dear Aparna,
maybe you can use the following information…
Poverty Measures and Nutrition: https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEMQFjADahUKEwixh8fq2rfHAhVnw3IKHZjgBdY&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economicsnetwork.ac.uk%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FTim%2520Hinks%2FPoverty%2520Measures%2520and%2520Nutrition.ppt&ei=cc7VVfGKGOeGywOYwZewDQ&usg=AFQjCNFC4zPZWUCEkWMrlafsB1QVBFQnEA&cad=rja
Frongillo EA Jr. Validation of measures of food insecurity and hunger. J Nutr. 1999 Feb;129(2S Suppl):506S-509S. http://jn.nutrition.org/content/129/2/506.long
Gulliford MC1, Mahabir D, Rocke B. Reliability and validity of a short form household food security scale in a Caribbean community. BMC Public Health. 2004;4:22. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-4-22.pdf
Gulliford MC, Nunes C, Rocke B. The 18 Household Food Security Survey items provide valid food security classifications for adults and children in the Caribbean. BMC Public Health. 2006;6:26. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-6-26.pdf
Pérez-Escamilla R. Latin-American and Caribbean household food security scale (ELCSA). 2010.
https://www.mcgill.ca/globalfoodsecurity/files/globalfoodsecurity/Wed_GFS_RafaelPerezEscamilla.pdf
Ballard TJ, Kepple AW, Cafiero C. The food insecurity experience scale: development of a global standard for monitoring hunger worldwide.Technical Paper. Rome, FAO. 2013. http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/ess/voh/FIES_Technical_Paper_v1.1.pdf
Best wishes from Germany
Martin
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