1. Measuring Food & Health

Syllabus Link: Ways of measuring disparities in food and health                                                                                                         between places

FOOD

Global Patterns in Food / Nutrition

Global patterns in food/nutrition indicators, including the food security index, the hunger index, calories per person/capita, indicators of malnutrition

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   Note Sheet: Global Patterns in Food

Global Patterns
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   Article: The toxic truth about what we eat

Food Security Index
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   Website: Global food security index
   Website: FAO - State of food security
   

The Hunger Index
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   Website: The global hunger index
   Article: Global hunger increasing UN warns

Calories Per Person
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   Website: Daily calories 0- Graphs from our World in Data
   Reading: The WHO - Global trends in calorie consumption
​   Article: Mapping calorie consumption per day

Malnutrition

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   Reading: WHO - What is malnutrition?
   Webpage: UNICEF - Global malnutrition rates
   Article: Nat Geo - The new faces of hunger

The Nutrition Transition

The nutrition transition, and associated regional variations of food consumption and nutrition choices

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   Activity: What the world eats - Nutrition transition activities
   Reading: Wiki - The nutrition transfer
   Visualizations: What the world eats
   Article: Overeating hits the developing world
   Video & Article: A 1/3 of adults are now overweight or obese

Health

Global patterns in health indicators

Global patterns in health indicators, including health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE), infant mortality, maternal mortality, access to sanitation and the ratio between doctors/physicians and people
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   Activity: Measuring health
   Website: Visualizations - The geography of health
​   Visualization: WHO - Life expectancy
   Reading: Health indicators

The epidemiological transition

The epidemiological transition, the diseases continuum (diseases of poverty to diseases of affluence), and the implications of a global ageing population for disease burden

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   Activities: Epidemiological transition activities
   Reading: The epidemiological transition
   Interactive: Healthy life expectancy