1. COURSE : Medical English
TEACHER : Dra. Rosa Gonzáles Llontop
GROUP : 4TH
STUDENTS : * Gastelo Salazar, Kenyi
* Jambo Mendoza, Juan
* Mayo Cabanillas, Darcy
* Perales Carrasco, Tito
* Rojas Ramos, Percy
* Vásquez Ochoa, Pedro
CYCLE : 2012 - I

2. DEFINITION
DESNUTRITION
is a DISEASE
CAUSED BY
Improper Diet
… It can also be caused by
POOR ABSORPTION OF
NUTRIENTS

3. DIFERENCE BETWEEN…
DESNUTRITION
There is a deficiency in
the intake of calories
and protein.
MALNUTRITION
There is a
deficiency, excess or
imbalance in the intake
of one or more
nutrients.

4. Desnutrition in children
can begin even in the
womb.
Malnourished
mothers give birth to
malnourished
children.

5. CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION
POVERTY AND EXTREME POVERTY:
malnutrition and poverty are related.
Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented the
following figures in terms of poverty
coast is 17.7%, forest, 37.3%
highlands is 49.1%

6. CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION:
THE URBAN-RURAL DIFFERENCES
Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
presented the following figures in
terms of malnutrition
3.2% in urban areas 11.8% in rural areas

7. CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION:
THE IMPORTANCE OF MATERNAL EDUCATION
The incidence of malnutrition according to
Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
is 30% to 40% lower and low 25% to 47%
among children with between the who
mothers who completed completed secondary
primary education education
compared to the "uneducated"

8. CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION:
THE ROLE OF WATER AND SANITATION:
the problems of food safety
are important factors
In the vulnerability to food insecurity
nutritional pathogenic consequences
particularly smaller ones

9. CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION:
HUNGER AND RELATED DISEASES
inadequate dietary intake and quality
problems of the diet
Results in greater vulnerability to the onset
of various diseases, directly or indirectly
associated
diarrhea (EDA)
cretinism
respiratory infections (ARI)
vitamin A deficiency

10. CONSEQUENCES OF MALNUTRITION
MORTALITY.
56% of deaths in children under 83% of these deaths were
five years were attributable to due to a mild or moderate
the effect of malnutrition malnutrition

11. CONSEQUENCES OF MALNUTRITION
INFECTIONS
malnutrition leads to reduction
physical barriers such as the
humoral and
protective mucus in the
cellular immunity
airways and gastric acidity
thus creating episodes
infectious diseases

12. CONSEQUENCES OF MALNUTRITION
DYSFUNCTION.
reduction in physical influences on patterns of
capacity and intellectual behavior in adulthood

13. CONSEQUENCES OF MALNUTRITION
CHRONIC DISEASES.
The malnutrition The low birth weight
an increased risk of chronic
diseases in adulthood
heart disease
díabetes
cardiovascular problems hypertension

14. Children under five in Peru´ s highland regions still
bear the brunt of chronic malnutrition.
The statistics are broken down, it becomes clear that
malnutrition was reduced to a much lesser extent among
children.

15. BUT IN THE ANDEAN REGION OF
43 PERCENT OF THE HUANCAVELICA IN SOUTHERN
NATIVE CHILDREN PERU, 56 PERCENT OF ALL
SUFFER FROM CHILDREN UNDER FIVE ARE
CHRONIC INDIGENOUS
MALNUTRITION.

16. 32 PERCENT OF THEM
Region of ARE CHRONICALLY
Cuzco MALNOURISHED,
HUANCAVELICA AND
WHICH COULD HELP
APURÍMAC OBTAINED
EXPLAIN THE LIMITED
RELATIVELY LIMITED
PROGRESS MADE.
REVENUES FROM THE
"CANON MINERO

17. WHERE 49 PERCENT OF
CHILDREN ARE
In Puno INDIGENOUS, 20
PERCENT ARE
MALNOURISHED
In Ancash
23 PERCENT OF THEM SUFFER FROM
CHRONIC MALNUTRITION (SHOWING
BELOW NORMAL WEIGHT AND
HEIGHT FOR AGE).

18. INDIGENOUS
CHILDREN
MALNOURISHED
CHILDREN

19. THE STATE, THE INTERNATIONAL COMBAT
COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY MALNUTRITION
EFFORTS TO
MULTIPLE CAUSES

20. • Implement integral policies to ensure food security
interventions, health and education of vulnerable
1 populations
• Implement aggressive policies of income generation for
the poorest families
2
• Designing effective systems for monitoring nutritional
outcomes of social programs.
3

21. • Optimize economic resources, the FONCOMUN, Canon, among
others, to improve the quality of health services, expand coverage of
water and sanitation, prioritizing these resources to the most
1 vulnerable.
• Promote economic development projects and social development in
the poorest regions of the country, strengthening public participation
2 in decisions on the use of state resources.
• Improve the targeting of food assistance programs, promoting
intersectorial coordination.
3