tailieunhanh - CHILDREN AND FOOD SAFETY: WHO Training Package for the Health Sector

As an additional strategy, we also consider household assets as instruments. This identification strategy allows considering municipality fixed effects but assumes that decisions over the household assets considered do not depend or respond to shocks to child health. The use of community fixed effects is particularly appealing, as it will control for the absence of the long-run price structure. However, we will have to assume that transitory price changes do not influence child health. An obvious drawback from the use of community fixed effects is that one cannot identify the effect of community level infrastructure in child health. . | TRAINING FOR THE HEALTH SECTOR Date .Place . CHILDREN AND FOOD SAFETY Children s Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization www. ceh 1 NOTE TO USER Please add details of the date time place and sponsorship of the meeting for which you are using this presentation in the space indicated. NOTE TO USER This is a large set of slides from which the presenter should select the most relevant ones to use in a specific presentation. These slides cover many facets of the problem. Present only those slides that apply most directly to the local situation in the region. This presentation provides some of the basic information needed to understand how food contamination affects children. It stresses the ways children from preconception through adolescence are different from adults in their exposure to food contaminants. Children and Food Safety LEARNING OBJECTIVES After this presentation individuals will understand Major foodborne risks for Embryo foetus Breast and bottle-fed infants Children and infants receiving complementary foods How to reduce food contamination during Production Storage Preparation 2 READ SLIDE Children and Food Safety FOODBORNE DISEASES HOW LARGE IS THE PROBLEM Only estimates are available Reporting varies according to the source billion cases diarrhoea annually excluding China 30-70 are food-related million deaths mostly in children 5 years Most of morbidity affects children Vicious circle of diarrhoea and malnutrition 3 NOTE TO USER INSERT LOCAL NATIONAL REGIONAL ESTIMATES Definition of foodborne diseases Foodborne diseases are defined as diseases usually either infectious or toxic in nature caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of food. Every person is at risk of foodborne diseases. Unfortunately data on the incidence and severity of foodborne diseases in the general population are limited in most countries. Where such data are collected .