Question

why adolescents are under nourished



SUBJECT:MAPEH/HEALTH

Answer 1

Immediate causes are:  

• Poor diets. Meals may be low in quantity, nutrient density or variety, or eaten infrequently. Infants may get insufficient breastmilk.diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, diarrhoea, respiratory tract or ear infections, measles, hookworms and other gut parasites.  

Underlying causes are:  

Family food insecurityInadequate care of vulnerable household members (e.g. ‘unfair’ sharing of food within families) Unhygienic living conditions (e.g. poor water supplies and poor sanitation) Inadequate health services

Basic causes are:  

• Poverty
• Lack of information, political and economic insecurity
• War
• Lack of resources at all levels, unequal status of women, and/or natural disasters

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