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adjective
- 1. below a weight considered normal or desirable: "he was thirty pounds underweight"
- 2. having less investment in a particular area than is normal or desirable: "the company is still underweight in Japan"
verb
- 1. apply too little weight to: "we feared the hot-air balloon had been underweighted"
noun
- 1. insufficient weight: "thinness and underweight may be a physical quality that you and I share"
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The double burden of malnutrition consists of both undernutrition and overweight and obesity, as well as diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Undernutrition manifests in four broad forms: wasting, stunting, underweight, and micronutrient deficiencies. Wasting is defined as low weight-for-height.
Mar 1, 2024 · Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients. The term malnutrition covers 2 broad groups of conditions. One is ‘undernutrition’—which includes stunting (low height for age), wasting (low weight for height), underweight (low weight for age) and micronutrient deficiencies or ...
Mar 1, 2024 · Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients. The term malnutrition addresses 3 broad groups of conditions: undernutrition, which includes wasting (low weight-for-height), stunting (low height-for-age) and underweight (low weight-for-age); micronutrient-related malnutrition, which includes micronutrient deficiencies (a lack of important vitamins and minerals) or micronutrient excess; and overweight, obesity and diet-related ...
Underweight - Weight is easy to measure; hence, this is the indicator for which most data have been collected in the past. The mortality risk is increased in children who are even mildly underweight, and the risk is even greater in severely underweight children. Cut-off values for public health significance
Mar 1, 2024 · Worldwide adult obesity has more than doubled since 1990, and adolescent obesity has quadrupled. In 2022, 2.5 billion adults (18 years and older) were overweight. Of these, 890 million were living with obesity. In 2022, 43% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight and 16% were living with obesity. In 2022, 37 million children under the ...
Rationale: Child growth is an internationally accepted outcome reflecting child nutritional status. Child underweight belongs to a set of indicators whose purpose is to measure nutritional imbalance and malnutrition resulting in undernutrition (assessed by underweight, stunting and wasting) and overweight.
Input data and methods are described here: NCD-RisC. Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents and adults.
Underweight in children under 5 (JME) (UNICEF-WHO-WB) Around 560 000 children vaccinated in first round of polio campaign in Gaza. WHO updates influenza care guidelines, includes recommendations for viruses with pandemic potential. WHO and partners establish an access and allocation mechanism for mpox vaccines, treatments, tests.
Jun 9, 2021 · Overweight and obesity are defined as "abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health". Body mass index (BMI) – the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kg/m2) – is a commonly used index to classify overweight and obesity in adults. WHO defines overweight as a BMI equal to or more than 25, and ...
Feb 19, 2018 · The proportion of underweight children in developing countries has declined from 28% to 17% between 1990 and 2013. This rate of progress is close to the rate required to meet the MDG target, however improvements have been unevenly distributed between and within different regions. Millennium Development Goal 4: reduce child mortality
