Exam 14: Global Food and Nutrition Security: Challenges and Opportunities

The weaning periodic one of the most dangerous times for children in developing countries because newly weaned infants often receive nutrient-poor diluted cereals or starchy root crops.

Three major factors affect population growth are birth rates, death rates, and _____.

Food insecurity is a product of poverty resulting from the ways in which governments and businesses manage national and international economies.

Iodine deficiency is one of the major preventable cause of ____ worldwide.

Central America is the region with the highest prevalence of hunger-where one in four people are undernourished.

What are the Millennium Development Goals?

​Match the definitions/descriptions in the left column with the appropriate term in the right column. Options will only be used once. -​Characterized in children who are thin for their height

What best describes an example of a cause of global food insecurity at the household level?

​Match the definitions/descriptions in the left column with the appropriate term in the right column. Options will only be used once. -Transnational companies with direct investments and/or operative facilities in more than one country

Low birth weight contributes to more than ____ percent of the deaths of children under five years of age.

Describe how the trend toward urbanization in developing countries is a health challenge of the twenty-first century.

Birth weight is a potent indicator of an infant's future health status.

​Match the definitions/descriptions in the left column with the appropriate term in the right column. Options will only be used once. -​Legumes

​Define nutrition security and explain what happens when nutrition security is not present for people worldwide.

During the initial World Summit for Children, one of UNICEF's goals for nutrition and food security included _____.

​The biggest risk factor for illness worldwide is ____.

Achieving improved nutritional well-being worldwide requires broad action on many issues, including ____.

Match the descriptive feature in the left column with the deficiency disease in the right column. Options will be used more than once.​ -​Children are thin for their height

Match the descriptive feature in the left column with the deficiency disease in the right column. Options will be used more than once.​ -​Wasting

The global prevalence of iodine deficiency has been halved because of a sustained effort to add iodine to the world's household salt.