(People's Daily Health Client Wang Yuan) On October 15, the "2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI)" was released. China is one of the 17 "low-hungry" countries with GHI scores below 5 among the 121 countries counted. It is also the largest decline among these 17 countries in the past 22 years, from 13.3 in 2000 to less than 5 this year. Among them, the "child (height) developmental delay rate" dropped from 17.8 at the beginning of this century to the current 4.8, and the "malnutrition rate" dropped from 10.0 to less than 2.5.
2022 Global Hunger Index Distribution Schematic Diagram. GHI website screenshot
In China's data, the "child (height) developmental delay rate" is the largest indicator of change since 2014, falling from 8.1 to 4.8. According to reports, this data reflects the proportion of children under five years old who are lower than their peers, reflecting the chronic malnutrition status of children.
2014 to 2022, changes in China's four composition indicators. GHI website screenshot
"Improving children's physical fitness is of great significance to improving the physical fitness of the Chinese nation. In recent years, the country has attached importance to early nutrition in infants and young children, and has carried out the children's program immunization vaccination. On the basis of promoting breastfeeding, it popularized the technology of supplementary food addition, supplementing key nutrients, etc.." Liang Furong, chief physician of pediatrics at the First Hospital of Peking University and a member of the Clinical Nutrition Working Group Committee of the China Eugenic Science Association, told the people Daily Health Client, "These work has promoted the decline in the deficiency rate of protein , iron, zinc, calcium, and vitamin AD, improved physical growth and development of children, improved immune function, intestinal infection, decreased malnutrition caused by respiratory infection , and the incidence of low weight and growth retardation in children."
2017, the breast milk bank of the Affiliated Pediatric Hospital of Fudan University was established. Wenhui News Figure
GHI data is a tool for measuring and tracking hunger. It was collected and studied by the International Institute of Food Policy (IFPRI) and published by the non-governmental organization in Germany and Ireland. It is considered to be one of the authoritative data for studying the situation of world food security. According to the GHI website, the index is calculated based on a percentage system and is based on indicators composed of "malnutrition", "child (height) developmental delay", "child thinness" and "child death", reflecting the severity of hunger. Zero points are the best score (no hunger), and 100 is the worst score. GHI scores for each country are classified by severity.
