I Am Not On A Diet Malnutrition and World Hunger Due to Climate Change
Shahnaz Medina, Tiara Nadya Putrianda, Regia Anadhia Pinastika
Faculty of Medicine, Pembangunan Nasional University Jakarta, Indonesia
Abstract:
Climate change in the 21 st century is progressing rapidly and has cause not only subtle changes in our world but also on human health. The impact of climate change on medicine is one of the most common etiology that worsen and created a vicious cycle in the progress of climate change. One of the most prominent impact is severe malnutrition, it has been linked to extreme-climatic events and one of the most important consequences of climate change.
The more severe and more frequent natural disasters and the unpredicted changes of weather have cause food crisis and water shortage and as a result malnutrition happens. In recent findings, The IPCC estimate, there will be 30 million more malnourished children as a result of climate change by 2050 and with temperature increases of 2 O C an additional 30 to 200 million people will be placed at risk of hunger across the world. Malnutrition have caused a domino effect and has been known as one of the“ killer” trifecta of climate change along with other diseases like malaria and diarrhea. With malnutrition, not only it causes millions of death from lack of sufficient nutrients to sustain life, but it’ s also increases the vulnerability to infectious diseases such as malaria and respiratory illnesses. This affect a lot of aspects even broader than the health itself, such as education and the world’ s economy on the long term. The purposed of this poster is to remind the public and future health practitioners to set their priorities straight, to raise awareness on the forgotten crisis that is malnutrition and to point out the importance of finding solutions for malnutrition as soon as possible. The sentence“ i’ m not on a diet” represents those who doesn’ t have the liberty to choose their food, simply because the don’ t have any.