2020, Number 1
Mul Med 2020; 24 (1)
Malnutrition; World-wide public health problem
Fonseca GZ, Quesada FAJ, Meireles OMY, Cabrera RE, Boada EAM
Language: Spanish
References: 8
Page: 237-246
PDF size: 278.33 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Malnutrition is considered one of the main components to achieve an optimal state of health and ensure a good quality of life. Nutritional conditions are increasingly common in the world. FAO in 2017, states the information on the prevalence of malnutrition, also provides global figures for several regions of the world, approximately one in five people in the developing world have chronic undernutrition, 192 million children suffer from protein-energy malnutrition and More than 2,000 million have micronutrient deficiencies. This study was carried out with the objective of disseminating a topic to be consulted by health professionals and students. Our Ministry of Public Health dedicates important promotion and dissemination actions to reduce the effects of malnutrition on human beings.REFERENCES
de Acosta T, de Rodríguez I, Rossell Pineda M, Castillo M. Fósforo sérico en niños con desnutrición grave y su relación con el síndrome de realimentación. Archivos Latinoamericanos De Nutrición [Internet]. 2016 [citado 11/9/2019]; 66(1). Disponible en: https://www.alanrevista.org/ediciones/2016/1/art-4/