1. HUMAN MEDICAL SCHOOL
TEACHER: Dra. Rosa Gonzáles Llontop
MEMBERS:
Paredes Campos Ligia
Pintado Coronel David
Pisfil Colchado Jonathan
Rodas Regalado Carlota
Segura Rios Patricia
Vera Bances Paul

2. DEFINITI
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CAUSES
CONSEQUENCE
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STATISTIC

3. EDITORIAL
What is the cost of hunger? Do we
know what the social and economic
impact of malnutrition in Peru?

4. EDITORIAL
For many it is simply the
lack of food, which is
reflected in a lower weight
or height. However, the
costs to the country are
many. Peru is one of the
countries with highest
prevalence of chronic
malnutrition in South
America

5. DEFINITION OF
MALNUTRITION

6. DEFINITION OF MALNUTRITION
The term malnutrition refers to a
pathological condition caused by lack of
intake or absorption of nutrients.
According to the severity of symptoms,
the disease can be divided into first, second
and even third degree

7. Sometimes, the disorder can be mild
and occur without symptoms, an
inadequate or unbalanced diet.
However, there are other more serious
cases, where the consequences can be
irreversible

8. PREVALENCE OF CHRONIC MALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN
UNDER 5 YEARS IN LATIN AMERICA
 Peru is ranked 21
out of 25 countries.
 We're just better
than Bolivia,
Ecuador, Honduras
and Guatemala.

9. EMERGENCY IN PERU
 Malnutrition was a significant reduction between 1992
and 1996.
 Since then there have been marginal progress,
although in the last three years achieved a reduction of
almost 3 points.
Prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children under five years
35
31.8
29.6
30
25.8 26.7
25.4
24.1
25
21.5
20
15
10
5
0
1992 1993-1994 1996 2000 2004 2005 2008*

10. EMERGENCY IN PERU
New standar OMS
 The estimate with the new standard is even more
daunting:
 in Peru, Nearly one in three children under five is
malnourished chronic.
 the situation has not improved significantly since 2000:
the rate has fallen by only 3.5 points.
32
31
31
30 29.5
29.21
29
28 27.5
27
26
25
2000 2005 2007 2008*
Prevalencia de desnutrición crónica en niños menores de

12. Indicators of malnutrition for children under five years, according to geographical
area, 2007. Standard (WHO)
We see that on the coast, La
Libertad has 31.2% of total
chronic malnutrition and
10.5% of severe chronic
malnutrition, followed by
Piura has 29.8% and 8, 2%
respectively.
SOURCE: INEI - Demographic and Family Health, DHS 2007

13. Indicators
In the jungle, in the department of Amazonas, a little
more than a third of children under five are chronically
malnourished Total (37.2%) and 12.0% severe chronic
malnutrition

14. Chronic malnutrition in Peru, by geographic region 2010
Source: Map of chronic malnutrition in children under five at the provincial and district
2009 - INEI
According to data recorded by the INEI 2010, in terms of natural regions,
evidenced a higher percentage in the region of the Sierra (27.6%), followed
by jungle (21.7%) and the coast (10.3%).

15. CAUSE
S

16. causes of malnutrition
malnourished mother
malnourished
newborn
infant mortality
and school
malnourished adult malnourished child
for lack of knowledge of the
basic rules of safety
continuous infectious diseases

17. causes of malnutrition
inadequate and insufficient food intake
In the study area there are no
programs dedicated to providing
guidance on the necessary power,
as there is only glass of milk.

18. causes of malnutrition
There is no health
center responsible
for providing the
necessary support
and guidance to
Lack of health services mothers in charge
of family support

19. causes of malnutrition
lack of safe water and basic sanitation
lack of sewerage and
unconcern of
government

20. causes of malnutrition in Peru
The mothers in charge of cooking
Lack of information. with very young and generally do not
have the necessary guidance
low educational level

21. causes of malnutrition in Peru
economic deficiency in families
Parents do not have a stable job
and economic status in
households is quite low.

23. Peru is one of the countries
with the highest prevalences of
chronic malnutrition in all of
South America

24.  This situation increases the risk
of illness and death and inhibits
the cognitive and physical
development of girls and boys
affecting their health status of
chronically and their productive
potential future, with economic and
social consequences for the person,
family, community and country.

25. Malnutrition at an early
age predisposes people
to an increased risk of
diseases such as
acute diarrhea, acute respiratory infection and
anemia, as well as death (in 1941 and in
2005, just over 1.7 million children five have
died from causes associated with
malnutrition).

26. The
undernourished population shows a
smaller proportion of students that
reach complete secondary (27 %)
with respect to non-malnourished
patients (76 % ).
These differences are indicators in relation to
the gaps of job opportunity and income
between some and others.

27. 3. In productivity: has a negative impact on the productive
capacity of a country. The 1.24 million children under five who
died due to malnutrition would have formed part of the
population of working age (PET).
This is equivalent to 1,916
million hours of work.

28. Policies to improve malnutrition.

29. Policies to improve malnutrition.
4.1.- Organize programs which
provides lectures on nutrition
4.2.- Make constant power
campaigns.

30. 4.4.-Ongoing health
campaigns, in order to detect
time combat malnutrition.
4.3.- Implement one or
more kitchens.

31. 4.5.- Making schools where
parents are assessed and
nutrition classes dictate.
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4.6.-Organize programs which
controls and monitors the
process until the birth of the
baby.

32. 4.7.- Offer management of
municipal management of food
and nutrition programs..
4.8 Make food security projects
in the area.

33. 4.10.-Monitoring the nutritional status
of the population, in particular higher
groups risk: mothers and children.
4.11 Preventive measures for
disease control specific nutritional
.