Nutritional Status Survey (1988 1989)

178. With a view to improving the nutritional status of the population, a draft has been prepared on the establishment of a National Monitoring System of Nutrition and the Nutritional Status of the Population in Bulgaria.

(b) Tunisia apos s food and nutrition situation

Protein energy malnutrition (PEM)

The nutritional status of the population has deteriorated.

Aims to improve the nutritional status of the target population

Deficient nutritional status of children expressed as stunting and wasting.

263. In contrast to improving health status, the nutritional situation does not reflect significant positive change.

Table 11. Nutritional status of children by sector

An estimated 57 per cent of the Afghan population suffers from malnutrition and long term chronic malnutrition is a likely prospect.

For the evaluation of nutrition, the recommended values of the body mass index (BMI) were used.

Table 10. Nutritional status of children, Demographic and Health Survey 1993

In addition, the nutritional status of the population had deteriorated, with particularly devastating results among children.

There will be monitoring of maternal nutrition and weight gain in pregnancy.

39. With regard to the nutritional situation of children under the age of five, the Ministry of Health, the United Nations Children s Fund and the World Food Programme conducted in March 1998 a nutritional status survey the preliminary results of which indicate that the situation remains unchanged since the previous survey in March 1997.

In particular, concerted efforts are needed to combat malnutrition and ensure the implementation of a National Nutritional Policy for children.

In particular, concerted efforts are needed to combat malnutrition and ensure the implementation of a national nutritional policy for children.

(c) Crisis situations resulting in deterioration of the health and nutritional status of the population

Nutrition in Primary Health Care (PHC) The objective is to improve in qualitative terms the nutritional status of women, girls and infants by providing and expanding more PHC nutritional services.

The Committee shares the concern expressed by the representative of the State party at the widespread severe malnutrition and at the inadequacies of data and statistics monitoring nutrition.

Poor maternal nutritional status and health also result in low weight of children at birth.

211. There are no exact data on the nutritional status of these groups.

175. There are no significant differences in the nourishment between men and women in Bulgaria.

216. Other nutrition related interventions implemented through the primary health care network include growth monitoring and promotion, nutrition surveillance, nutrition education, micro nutrient supplementation, treatment and rehabilitation of the severely malnourished and the control of infections.

181. Lack of knowledge about irrational nutrition and non observance of its principles are among the basic reasons for the present state of affairs in Bulgaria.

Undernutrition has multiple causes, including food insecurity and alimentary customs.

Children s vulnerability to diseases is aggravated by their poor nutritional status.

The food and nutritional situation is a major problem, reflected among other things in a high level of infant mortality, since a very high proportion of children are suffering from malnutrition.

B. Conditions of operation

The results since 1999 have been encouraging. They reflect the efforts that have been made, and which must now be reinforced and continued

Poor nutrition and a more limited access to health care and health education jeopardize the overall health of girls. This leads to stunted growth and nutritional deficiencies such as anemia.

Palestinian living conditions have declined dramatically and the health and nutritional status of the Palestinian population, particularly women and children, has worsened.

UNICEF s report State of the World s Children Children and Nutrition, 19 March 1998

Evaluation of nourishment level

The objective of this Act is to establish the measures needed to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, which significantly improves infants' nutritional status.

The nutritional status of urban children has been found to be better than that of children in both the rural and estate sectors.

Poor health and nutrition in the early years of life perpetuate the cycle of poverty and intergenerational under achievement for poor families and societies.

256. The improvement of the food and nutrition situation of the whole population is one of the fundamental goals of Tunisia apos s planning.

As part of its claim for damage to shoreline resources, Kuwait also seeks monetary compensation for lost recreational opportunities.

But, paradoxically, the nutritional status of, particularly, infants and pre school children has not shown a commensurate improvement.

The region has more people with inadequate nutrition, more living in slum conditions and more without access to water and sanitation than any other region of the world.

The main objective of the sectoral health policy adopted in 1995 is, indeed, to improve the health of the population by the year 2000.

(a) The overall poor health and nutritional status of pregnant women resulting in a high incidence of low birth weight

(ix) Maternal nutritional status will be addressed to reduce the incidence of low birth weight and neonatal mortality rates.

Goods and or services provided regular and fortified powdered milk encouragement for breastfeeding food education monitoring of the nutritional status of pregnant women and children