Explain the Effects of Hunger and Malnutrition on the Health Status of Communities.

Code of Module: DVA 1601

Title of the Module: Development problems and institutions

Semester: Semester 1

Number of assignment: Assignment 02

I, the undersigned, hereby declare that this is my own and personal work, except where work(s) or publications of others have been acknowledged by means of reference techniques.

I have read and understood Tutorial Letter DVAALLD/301/4/2012 regarding technical and presentation requirements, referencing techniques and plagiarism.

Name: Nomfundo Nxumalo

Student Number: 48147788

Date: 10th April 2012

A witness’s signature: Ngwane Nxumalo

Table of contents

1. Module, assignment information and declaration 1

2. Table of contents 2

3. Introduction 3

4. Definitions of health, hunger and malnutrition 4

5. Effects of hunger and malnutrition and how the two concepts are linked 5-6

6. How community participation can address these effects 7

7. What does the prescribed literature say about the need for national political 8

commitment in order for effective health- care to succeed

8. Conclusion 9

9. Bibliography 10

INTRODUCTION

In my assignment I will explain the effects of hunger and malnutrition on the health status of communities. I will also describe how community participation and national political commitment can assist to address these effects.

The World Health organization defines “health as a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.(United...