Chapter 9 PGH

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Jordyn Coe

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  • Problem of disciplinary siloes
    • Intense competition
    • Inefficiency
    • Confusion about ownership
    • Not seeing the big picture
    • Reduced accountability
    • Culture challenges
  • Syndemic

    Multiplication of malnutrition, triple pandemic and climate change
  • Interacting elements of the Lancet Report's "Global Syndemic"

    • Undernutrition and Undernutrition overlapping
    • Climate change
  • Types of malnutrition in the Global Syndemic
    • Undernutrition - wasting, stunting, underweight, lack of vitamins, lack of minerals
    • Overnutrition - obesity, overweight, heart disease, diabetes
  • The obesity epidemic is not simply a matter of having enough money to eat too much, it can be due to the amount of healthy food someone can afford
  • Prenatal and early development food security
    • Alters our 'phenotype' expression (epigenetics) - making us more prone to many NCDs
    • Increases risk for obesity in her children and maybe even their children
  • Global Hunger Index

    Global mortality rates by obesity are higher in LMIC even though the obesity rates are higher in HIC
  • Food Desert

    Not enough available food
  • Ultra-Processed Foods

    Cheap, long shelf-life, tasty, and targeted to vulnerable groups
  • Food Swamp

    Communities with access to mostly ultra-processed foods
  • Food deserts and food swamps in low-income communities
    Low-income communities very likely to be food dessert need to travel outside of town to get healthy groceries, but they have food swamp available to food that has no nutritional value
  • NCDs

    Individuals with pre-existing conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and respiratory illnesses are at a higher risk of severe complications with COVID-19
  • How climate change can affect health
    • Compromising agricultural productivity
    • Increased food insecurity in LMIC
    • Reversing health gains - Especially vulnerable populations and LMIC
    • Leading to population displacement
    • Risk of increased conflict
  • Traditional values that could inform everyone and improve health security for everyone

    • Thinking about 7 generations ahead and being when making decisions
    • More connected to nature and having more respect