PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES
While discussing the basic human rights, the
first thing that comes in mind is the health of
any
individual. It is very important to highlight
the health issues in any region and provide the
primary
health care services to the communities
specially the underserved communities living in
the suburbs.
Primary health care services must include the
day to day health of any individual and
vaccinations of
the new born and adults.
In case of health response, immediate actions
are required for mitigating any disease from the
region
and provide preventive measures against the
disease. Not only this, people living in the
suburbs also
have lack of health services. Government have
sanctioned Basic Health Units (BHUs) in far long
areas
which are not easily accessible, however, most
of the health units are not well equipped to
provide the
basic health services to the people residing
beside. For the primary health care services, it
is required to
make the health units strong while ensuring the
availability every important medications and
testin
facilities.
FOOD SECURITY
Food security, as defined by the United Nations'
Committee on World Food Security, is the
condition
in which all people, at all times, have
physical, social and economic access to
sufficient safe and
nutritious food that meets their dietary needs
and food preferences for an active and healthy
life. Over
the coming decades, a changing climate, growing
global population, rising food prices, and
environmental stressors will have significant
yet highly uncertain impacts on food security.
Adaptation strategies and policy responses to
global change, including options for handling
water
allocation, land use patterns, food trade,
post-harvest food processing, and food prices
and safety are
urgently needed. These policy responses will be
vital to improve the living conditions of
farmers and
rural populations across the globe.Economic growth is only sustainable if all
countries have food security. Without
country-owned and
country-driven food security strategies, there
will be obstacles and additional costs to
global, regional,
and country-level economic growth. Food security
needs to encompass women and other vulnerable
and disadvantages groups.
NUTRITION SUPPORT
Nutrition is key to human well-being, but far
too many people around the world are afflicted
by poor
nutrition. Malnutrition is a complex, multi-sectoral
problem that presents across a continuum of poor
nutrition, from under-nutrition due to
deficiencies in energy, protein, and
micronutrients (and high rates
of infections) to problems of overweight,
obesity, and no communicable diseases, which
result from
poor quality, energy-dense and
micronutrient-poor diets and low physical
activity. The first 1,000 days
of life (from conception to a child's second
birthday) are critical to ensuring good
nutrition. Failing to
do so has long-lasting, irreversible
consequences into adulthood, including stunted
growth, stunted
brains, and stunted nations as a result of the
lower education, productivity, and poorer health
and
nutrition of its work force.
We are witnessing multiple burdens of
malnutrition, with some countries, communities
and households
suffering from combinations of undernutrition,
overweight and obesity, and micronutrient
deficiencies.
Grappling with these multiple burdens of
malnutrition are deeply tied to political,
social and economic
factors. There are currently 784 million people
who are undernourished, 159 million children
under five
who are chronically undernourished or stunted,
50 million children under five who are acutely
malnourished or wasted, and 2 billion and 1.2
billion people who are estimated to be iron and
zinc
deficient respectively.
Manzil Organization Balochistan's nutrition
research focuses on addressing all forms of
malnutrition
through strengthening and rigorously evaluating
multi-sectoral programs and policies that aim at
improving the diets, nutritional status, and
health of mothers, infants, and young children
during the
first 1,000 days and at other critical stages of
the lifecycle (for example, adolescence).