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    Reflection Paper: Community Strategies/Interventions On Health and Nutrition

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    1) Malnutrition is a widespread problem in many countries, including undernutrition and obesity. 2) In the document's country, 30% of children under 5 are stunted from undernutrition, while adult overweight and obesity rates have doubled in recent decades. 3) Sustainable improvement of health and nutrition requires a strong food system that ensures access to healthy food and clean water, as well as evidence-based intervention programs that are contextualized to local communities and address nutritional needs at different life stages.

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    1) Malnutrition is a widespread problem in many countries, including undernutrition and obesity. 2) In the document's country, 30% of children under 5 are stunted from undernutrition, while adult overweight and obesity rates have doubled in recent decades. 3) Sustainable improvement of health and nutrition requires a strong food system that ensures access to healthy food and clean water, as well as evidence-based intervention programs that are contextualized to local communities and address nutritional needs at different life stages.

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    1) Malnutrition is a widespread problem in many countries, including undernutrition and obesity. 2) In the document's country, 30% of children under 5 are stunted from undernutrition, while adult overweight and obesity rates have doubled in recent decades. 3) Sustainable improvement of health and nutrition requires a strong food system that ensures access to healthy food and clean water, as well as evidence-based intervention programs that are contextualized to local communities and address nutritional needs at different life stages.

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    Reflection Paper: Community Strategies/Interventions On Health and Nutrition

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    1) Malnutrition is a widespread problem in many countries, including undernutrition and obesity. 2) In the document's country, 30% of children under 5 are stunted from undernutrition, while adult overweight and obesity rates have doubled in recent decades. 3) Sustainable improvement of health and nutrition requires a strong food system that ensures access to healthy food and clean water, as well as evidence-based intervention programs that are contextualized to local communities and address nutritional needs at different life stages.

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    Reflection Paper: Community Strategies/Interventions on Health and Nutrition

    Given the importance of proper nutrition for human development and well-being, the goal
    for better nutrition is explicitly recognised in SDG 2, which is to “end hunger, achieve food
    security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture”. But the goal of nutrition is
    actually at the heart of the 17 SDGs wherein addressing goals 1 to 9 entails supporting nutrition,
    while nutrition is a pre-condition to achieve goals 10 to 17. Among the 2030 targets pertaining to
    nutrition are to ensure access, especially for the poor and vulnerable, to nutritious and sufficient
    food all year round and to end malnutrition in all forms. In addition, the particular nutritional
    needs of children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating women, and the elderly are given focus
    as well.
    Health and nutrition is an important issue as currently almost every country faces serious
    malnutrition challenges, whether from undernutrition or obesity. In our country, malnutrition is a
    widespread concern in both forms, wherein 30% of children under 5 year old are stunted from
    undernourishment, while adult overweight and obesity rates have almost doubled in the past
    decades. Several factors contribute to our country’s public health problem on undernutrition
    such as poverty that prevents food access, natural and manmade disasters that affects
    agricultural food supply, and low government prioritization and commitment to deliver nutrition
    interventions (World Food Program, 2018). In terms of rising incidence of overweight and
    obesity in adults, contributing factors include low consumer demand for nutritious food and
    preference towards processed food, increased sedentary lifestyle associated with urbanization.
    Sustainable Improvement of health and nutrition necessitates the consideration of a
    strong food system that ensures accessibility to healthy and nutritious food, as well as access to
    clean water. Also, intervention programs must be based on evidence proving effect on health or
    mortality indicators. It must be contextualized taking into account socio-cultural factors of
    a community, and must take on a lifecycle approach to target particular nutritional
    requirements of people in the different stages of human development. The Philippine
    government recognises that addressing the country’s concert on malnutrition entails
    commitment and cooperation from the different agencies of government, NGOs, and the
    private sector involved in health, nutrition, and social welfare. Interventions to educate
    the general population are also needed in order to promote behaviour change towards
    adoption of healthier and sustainable diets.

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