LESSON 2: Analysing the Conditions Affecting Nutritional Status |
|---|
Overview
This lesson is about the conditions that are necessary for people to have good nutritional status and what conditions can cause poor nutritional status and malnutrition. It explores the many things we need for good nutritional status: enough food to eat to meet our nutritional needs; clean water and living conditions to help us avoid disease; medical care to help prevent and treat disease; and the knowledge and ability to feed and care for ourselves and our families properly. It discusses the causes of poor nutritional status and how malnutrition affects people’s lives and explains how poverty is the underlying cause of much malnutrition in the world.
Learning objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- explain how adequate food, health, knowledge and care are fundamental conditions for good nutritional status
- understand that poverty is an underlying cause of much malnutrition and give examples of how poverty and malnutrition affect each other
- explain how poor nutritional status affects people, families, communities and the whole world
Lesson Structure
Lesson 2 is divided in two parts:
Download full Lesson 2 (3.9Mb)