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SUMMARY:Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnu
 trition in Jamaica\, c. 1960–2020 - Henrice Altink (University of York)
DTSTART:20201022T143000Z
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:Following independence in 1962\, successive governments in Jam
 aica tried to reduce the high rate of child malnutrition. Malnutrition was
  the result of a lack of protein and calories\, also called PCM – Protei
 n Calorie Malnutrition – and was a leading cause of death. Since the 199
 0s\, however\, the island has witnessed a nutrition transition with child 
 malnutrition declining and child obesity increasing. Based on\, amongst ot
 hers\, medical journals\, newspaper reports\, ministry papers\, and report
 s of international agencies\, this paper first of all explores how child m
 alnutrition was measured and analysed\; the various proposals put forward 
 and implemented to reduce it\; and the success rate of these policies. It 
 will show that over time child malnutrition and the solutions proposed bec
 ame increasingly localised\; that is\, greater attention was paid to the s
 ocio-economic and cultural context of pre-school children and their famili
 es and there was less reliance on outside agencies to reduce PCM. The pape
 r will then move on to trace the rise in child obesity levels and show tha
 t contrary to the UK\, US and many other western countries\, child obesity
  in Jamaica is largely associated with higher income groups. Although chil
 d obesity has rapidly increased – in 2017 some 10.3% of children were ob
 ese – very few attempts have so far been made to localise the problem. T
 he paper will explain why only recently campaigns – both government and 
 NGO funded – have been started to address child obesity.
LOCATION:Zoom
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