Famine and Disease

Alfani, Guido; Gráda, Cormac Ó

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“…The infrequency of severe mortality crises and the low prevalence of famine and disease are characteristics of modern industrial and post-industrial societies but understanding the processes leading to their decline, and the associated improvements in living standards and life expectancy, is a precondition for knowing what is needed to prevent their re-emergence [22]. Food selection is viewed as a potentially sustainable and non-pharmaceutical method of improving symptoms and, for some disorders, it has become the only (or simplest) proven treatment method [23].…”

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Foods Obstruct and Overcome Diseases (Food): The Missing Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Public Health Art Till Covid-19 Pandemic

Rajkumar¹

2020

IJPR

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The entireness of life is to gain energy to (i) support growth and maturation of the body (ii) defend and control diseases (iii) build survival skills and competence and (iv) lengthen the lifespan. Quite obviously, such magnificent energy is derived by consuming food in diverse mixtures and patterns. Are we curious and equipped enough to learn the efficacy of dietary practices at individual and community level? The well-known recommendation of Sir. Hippocrates has been "If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health". But in general, the health care system has been rarely giving importance to exercise and nutrition as the principal determinants to facilitate enhancement, restoration and maintenance of health and fitness of the individuals. On the other hand, the researches and advancements in the domains of Exercise and Nutrition have been establishing the realities of their tremendous health and therapeutic benefits. It is also clearly evident, neither the general public nor the patients are completely benefited by the modernized practices in the field of Exercise and Nutrition. The best example is patients who underwent Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgical repair inevitably presenting thigh muscle atrophy that appears as a major setback for rehabilitation, though this surgical complication could have been prevented by adapting right amount of scientific nourishment and exercise. Is it not important for Physiotherapists to be critical about such adverse outcomes of the medical procedures? Therefore, Physiotherapists must expedite acquiring skills and experience to strongly participate in public health predominantly relying on Exercise prescriptions. In order to ensure the effectiveness, it also becomes indispensable for Physiotherapists to collaborate with the Dietitians, so that suitable hydration, calories and nutrients (macro and micro) are supplied to blend its therapeutic benefits with that of the exercises for general public health and specific rehabilitation regimens of communicable and non-communicable diseases. It is also need of the hour to augment interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches in the medical field apt for the stressors of the contemporary world and the evolutionary stage of humans to not only ensure the healthy human life span but also the sustainability of human life on the Earth.

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Foods Obstruct and Overcome Diseases (Food): The Missing Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Public Health Art Till Covid-19 Pandemic

Rajkumar¹

2020

IJPR

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The Wealth Creation Approach to Poverty Reduction

Hipsher¹

2020

Wealth Creation Approach to Reducing Global Poverty

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Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid‐1840s

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Jaadla

2023

The Economic History Review

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By relying on longitudinal data on two rural parishes in the Russian Baltic province of Livland, the article analyses two questions concerning famine's short‐run effects on mortality in a manorial system: (1) whether there is evidence of a social gradient in mortality during the famine of 1844–6 and (2) whether the manors could protect the peasants against the hardships. The analysis reveals that neither the status of a farmer peasant nor the landlord saved the local inhabitants from an increased risk of dying during the famine of 1844–6. The conventional assumptions about the protective effect of the higher socio‐economic status or type of manor against subsistence crisis found very little support in the study.

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Famine and Disease

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Foods Obstruct and Overcome Diseases (Food): The Missing Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Public Health Art Till Covid-19 Pandemic

Foods Obstruct and Overcome Diseases (Food): The Missing Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Public Health Art Till Covid-19 Pandemic

The Wealth Creation Approach to Poverty Reduction

Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid‐1840s

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