CURRENT ISSUES

IN PHN
PREENTED TO
SIR RIZWAN ARSHAD
 Group
Members 1. Maryam 3. Abdullah
Shahzadi Najam
70076221 70076148

2. Nimra 4. Fareeha
Khalid Khan
70075975 70076
Contents

Food
Shortage

Dietary
Introduction Lifestyle

Food
Safety
 CURRENT ISSUES
IN PHN
PREENTED TO INTRODUCTION
SIR RIZWAN ARSHAD
NAME Maryam Shahzadi
SAP ID 70076221
What Is Nutrition?

• Nutrition is the process of

consuming foods, digesting and
absorbing nutrients and using
these nutrients for growth,
development and maintenance of
a healthy life.
 What is Public Health
Nutrition?

Hughes and Somerset(Australia)

Public health nutrition is the art and science of promoting population health status via sustainable
improvement in the food and nutrition system.

Based upon public health principles, it is a set of comprehensive and collaborative activities,
ecological in perspective and intersectoral in scope, including environmental, educational,
economic, technical and legislative measures.

Yngve (EU)

Public health nutrition focuses on the promotion of good health through nutrition and physical
activity and in the prevention of related illnesses in the population.
Conti...
Strives to improve or maintain optimum nutritional
health of the whole population and high risk or
vulnerable subgroups within the population.

Emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention but

may include therapeutic and rehabilitative services when
these needs are not adequately addressed by other parts
of the health care system.

Uses multiple, coordinated strategies to reach and

influence the community, and organizations and
individuals that make up the community.
Conti...

Requires organized and integrated community nutrition efforts with leadership provided by the state
and local health agency.

Community nutrition efforts involve a wide range of programs that provide increased access to food
resources, nutrition information and education, and health-related care. They also include efforts to
change behavior and environments and to initiate policy. 
Why is it important to know about public health nutrition?

Adequate nutrition for all is the goal

Dietary factors are associated with five of the ten leading causes of death

Maternal and child nutrition sets the stage for life

Vulnerable subgroups are at high risk for nutritional problems

Behavior change is challenging

Other strategies
Core Responsibilities of Public Health

Assessment

Policy Development

Assurance
Levels of Prevention

Primary 

Secondary

Tertiary
Issues in Public Health Nutrition

Food Shortages

Dietary Lifestyles

Food Safety 

Food Laws

Nutritional Assessment and Relevant Interventions

 ISSUES IN PHN
FOOD STOREGED
DIETARY LIFESTYLE
PREENTED TO
SIR RIZWAN ARSHAD
NAME NIMRA KHALID
SAP ID 70075975
FOOD SHORTAGE
 FOOD SHORTAGE
◦ The world produces enough food to feed everyone on the planet, yet 16.6% of the
world’s population is undernourished.
◦ Undernourishment is defined as a state of inability to acquire enough food for at least
one year. Enough food is defined as a level of food intake insufficient to meet dietary
energy requirements. 
• One billion people are living in extreme poverty.
◦ Out of the eight billion people on the planet, a striking one billion are living in extreme
poverty. Extreme poverty does more than deprive people of necessary food—it also robs
them of safe drinking water, sanitation, education, shelter, etc. In fact, more than a
billion people live on less than $1.25 a day, which isn’t even enough to buy one gallon of
milk at market price.
• Undernourishment causes 45% of all children’s deaths.
◦ Each year, 3.1 million children die from hunger-related causes, which include diarrhea
and malnutrition. Every 10 seconds a child dies from hunger.
 FOOD SHORTAGE
◦ More than 99 million children under age five are undernourished
and underweight
As a result of hunger, children experience poor health, low energy levels,
and reductions in mental functioning due to hunger.
Rising global food prices will cause 1.5 million more children to be
undernourished, making them one of the chief factors contributing to the
rise in world hunger.
◦ 1/8 of Asia and 1/4 of India are hungry
2,100 is a healthy amount of calories to consume per day. However, most
people who are chronically hungry eat even less than 1,800. And this is
true in Asia and India, where 1/8 and 1/4 are undernourished, respectively,
making them among the countries suffering from world hunger.
DIETARY LIFESTYLES
 DIETARY LIFESTYLE
◦ Lifestyle is a way used by people, groups and nations and is formed in
specific geographical, economic, political, cultural and religious text..
◦ Life style as an important factor of health is more interested by
researchers. According to WHO, 60% of related factors to individual
health and quality of life are correlated to lifestyle .
◦ Millions of people follow an unhealthy lifestyle.
◦ Hence, they face illness, disability and even death. Problems like
metabolic diseases, joint and skeletal problems, cardio-vascular
diseases, hypertension, overweight, violence and so on, can be caused
by an unhealthy lifestyle. The relationship of lifestyle and health should
be highly considered.
 DIETARY LIFESTYLE
Lifestyle that influence on health can be categorized in some items:
◦ Diet and Body Mass Index (BMI): Diet is the greatest factor in lifestyle and
has a direct and positive relation with health. Poor diet and its consequences like
obesity is the common healthy problem in urban societies. Unhealthy lifestyle
can be measured by BMI. Urban lifestyle leads to the nutrition problems like
using fast foods and poor foods, increasing problems like cardiovascular.
◦ Exercise: For treating general health problems, the exercise is included in life
style. The continuous exercise along with a healthy diet increases the health.
Some studies stress on the relation of active life style with happiness 
DIETARY LIFESTYLE
◦ Substance abuse: Addiction is considered as an unhealthy life style.
Smoking and using other substance may result in various problems;
cardiovascular disease, asthma, cancer, brain injury. According to the
resent studies in Iran, 43% of females and 64% of males experience the
use of hubble-bubble. A longitudinal study shows that 30% of people
between 18–65 years old smoke cigarette permanently.
◦ Medication abuse: It is a common form of using medication in Iran and
it is considered as an unhealthy life style. Unhealthy behaviors in using
medication are as followed: self-treatment, sharing medication, using
medications without prescription, prescribing too many drugs,
prescribing the large number of each drug, unnecessary drugs, bad
handwriting in prescription, disregard to the contradictory drugs,
disregard to harmful effects of drugs, not explaining the effects of drugs.
 ISSUES IN PHN
FOOD SAFETY
PREENTED TO
SIR RIZWAN ARSHAD
NAME ABDULLAH NAJAM
SAP ID 70076148
 FOOD SAFETY
◦ Foods are the basic building blocks of living things, yet they may pose a
threat and become harmful to human health in some situations.
◦ Many people throughout the world become ill because of the food they eat.
◦ These diseases associated with food consumption are referred to as
foodborne diseases, and they may result from dangerous microorganisms.
◦ Foods can become harmful to human health or even fatal when combined
with bacteria, mold, viruses, parasites and chemical toxins. Therefore, it is
absolutely necessary that consumers be provided with a safe food supply.
◦ The factors involved in the potential threat caused by foods are
inappropriate agricultural practices, poor hygiene at any stage of the food
chain, lack of preventive controls during processing and preparation of the
food, incorrect use of the chemical materials, contaminated raw materials,
food and water and inappropriate storage. 
 Food Safety: A Public Health Priority

◦ Unsafe food poses global health threats, endangering

everyone.
◦ Infants, young children, pregnant women, the elderly and
those with an underlying illness are particularly
vulnerable.
◦ Every year 220 million children contract diarrheal
diseases and 96 000 die.
◦ Unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of diarrhea and
malnutrition, threatening the nutritional status of the
most vulnerable.
 Food handlers and Consumers
◦ Can know the food they use (read labels on food
packages, make informed choices, become
familiar with common food hazards)
◦ Handle and prepare food safely, practicing
the WHO Five Keys to Safer Food at home, or
when selling at restaurants or at local markets
◦ Grow fruits and vegetables using the WHO Five
Keys to Growing Safer Fruits and Vegetables to
decrease microbial contamination.