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According to the Global Hunger Index, South Asia (also known as the Indian Subcontinent) has the highest child malnutrition rate of world's regions. [14] India, a largely vegetarian country and second largest country in the world by population, contributes most number in malnutrition in the region. The 2006 report mentioned that "the low status ...
One of the worst famines in all of Russian history, with as many as 100,000 in Moscow and up to one-third of the country's population killed; see Russian famine of 1601–1603. [46] The same famine killed about half of the Estonian population. Russia: 2,000,000: 1607–1608: Famine [39] Italy: 1618–1648: Famines in Europe caused by Thirty ...
A woman, man, and child, all dead from starvation during the Russian famine of 1921–1922. A famine is a widespread scarcity of food [1] [2] caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.
Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems. [11] [12] Specifically, it is a deficiency, excess, or imbalance of energy, protein and other nutrients which adversely affects the body's tissues and form. [13] Malnutrition is a category of diseases that includes undernutrition and ...
1870–1875 Europe smallpox epidemic 1870–1875 Europe Smallpox: 500,000 [166] [167] 1875 Fiji measles outbreak 1875 Fiji: Measles: 40,000 [168] 1875–1876 Australia scarlet fever epidemic 1875–1876 Australia Scarlet fever: 8,000 [164] 1876 Ottoman Empire plague epidemic 1876 Ottoman Empire: Bubonic plague: 20,000 [169] 1878 New Orleans ...
The BMJ argued that "a national surveillance system of emergency food aid in the UK, of who is at risk of food poverty, and of malnutrition is needed." [62] Health Minister Dan Poulter argued that the rise in malnutrition could be partly due to better diagnosis and detection by health professionals of people at risk. [63]
Therefore, malnutrition resulting in stunting can further worsen the obesity epidemic, especially in low and middle income countries. [106] This creates even new economic and social challenges for vulnerable impoverished groups. [106] Data on global and regional food supply shows that consumption rose from 2011 to 2012 in all regions.
Today it is estimated that there are approximately 1.02 billion people across the world living in conditions of extreme hunger, 1 billion of whom live in developing countries. [9] Hunger and malnutrition have been of growing concern throughout the international community, despite a number of intervention attempts from the likes of States and ...