wasting
衰弱、消耗症
Explanation 用語の説明
不適切な食事や病気などによる、身長に対して体重が極端に少なく生命が脅かされている状態。FAOほか(2022)によると、2020年において衰弱状態にある5歳未満の子どもは世界の子どもの6.7%(約4540万人)を占める。
Example 用例
Since the 1970s, those working in nutrition have categorised undernutrition in two major ways, children are either wasted or stunted.
There has very rarely been consideration for the relationship between these two types of undernutrition in children with limited evidence to describe the associations between wasting and stunting or the overlaps in how a child experiences them.
(The Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) "Wasting and Stunting: Overcoming the divide"より)
Dig deeper 知識・考えを深めよう
Q1: What are the differences between stunting and wasting?
(発育不良と消耗症はどう違うのだろうか)
Q2: What treatment is needed for wasted children?
(消耗症の子どもにはどのような対応・治療が必要なのだろうか)