Global Health Watch 1 in one file

Functional and Productive
Capacity
NUTRITIONAL WELL-BEING
Freedom from
Disease
Appropriate Food
Assimilation and
Utilisation
Capacity to
Thrive
Outcomes
Delivery and Empowerment Capacity
Health
Services
Water and
Sanitation
Adequate, Safe
and Varied
Food Intake
Access to a
Stable and Varied
Food Supply
Education
Family Caring
Capacity
Underlying Factors
Institutional Capacity
Control and Management
of Resources
Political, Economic and Socio-cultural Environment
Basic Factors
POTENTIAL RESOURCES
• People
• Natural resources
• Agricultural land
Figure D3.2 Determinants of nutritional well-being
(Source: UNICEF 1994)
experienced increases: between 1992 and 2000, the number of hungry people
went up by almost 60 million (Food and Agricultural Organization 2003). Only
three of the 10 African countries with maternal nutrition data showed a decline
in the last decade in the prevalence of severe maternal undernutrition
(defined as a body mass index of less than 16) (Standing Committee on Nutrition
2004).
Around 175 million children under five are estimated to be underweight, a
Food
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