A public health approach to the “Food-Malnutrition-Economic Recession” complex

dc.creatorMata Jiménez, Leonardo
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-05T17:17:22Z
dc.date.available2016-04-05T17:17:22Z
dc.date.issued1988
dc.descriptionArtículo científico -- Universidad de Costa Rica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud,1988es_ES
dc.description.abstractThe authors in this volume disagree as to whether the current economic world recession and its accompanying adjustment policies affect nutrition and health. Based on the data presented throughout this volume and the discussions at the Takemi Symposium, I am not convinced that current world economic conditions have significantly changed the nutritional state and survival of children in less developed countries—except in certain regions of Africa. This is not to say that such an effect does not exist—economic adjustments made by nations at the macro level and by families at the household level might have acted as a buffer. Any serious attempt to correlate economic phenomena with nutrition and 'Tiealth must take into account certain fundamental variables not immediately obvious to economists and policymakers. Discussions of this topic, for example, may suffer from problems in data collection which are particular to the field of public health. In addition, if the concept of malnutrition is to be used in a discussion of economics, it must be precisely defined in biological terms, and what we know of its causes must be understood and considered. Health factors, including illness, and other sociological factors which cause malnutrition need to be described. To understand these variables we must step outside the realm of policymaking and the discipline of economics. This chapter discusses some of these variables and their effects on analyses of health, nutrition and economic policy.es_ES
dc.description.procedenceUCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias de la Salud::Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud (INISA)es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidad de Costa Rica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Saludes_ES
dc.identifier.isbn0865691703
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10669/15685
dc.language.isoen_USes_ES
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.sourceIn: Health, Nutrition, and Economic Crises. Approaches to Policy in the Third World. DE Bell and MR Reich (eds.), Auburn House Pub. Co. Mass. 1988, pp. 265-275.es_ES
dc.subjectmaternal educationes_ES
dc.subjectMycoplasmaes_ES
dc.subjectDiarrheaes_ES
dc.subjectNutritiones_ES
dc.titleA public health approach to the “Food-Malnutrition-Economic Recession” complexes_ES
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