Option F Food and health: Measuring food and health
14 revision questions with answers for Option F Food and health: Measuring food and health, marked SL and HL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
When all people, at all times, have access to enough safe, nutritious things to eat?
- Food securityRight answer
- Food sovereignty
- Food self-sufficiency
- Food availability
What this set covers
Hunger, nutrition and health indicators are laid out here. Food security and food sovereignty, stunting and wasting, the Global Hunger Index, BMI, hidden hunger, the epidemiological transition, DALYs, HALE and child mortality all appear.
- Common mix-up
- Students often swap stunting and wasting: stunting is low height for age and signals chronic undernutrition, while wasting is low weight for height and signals acute undernutrition.
- Revision tip
- Make a small table of the health measures, with what each counts and one weakness, then compare DALYs with HALE and child mortality with infant mortality.
All 14 questions and answers
When all people, at all times, have access to enough safe, nutritious things to eat?
Answer: Food security
Right of communities to define their own agricultural and dietary policies?
Answer: Food sovereignty
Low height for age in children, a sign of chronic undernutrition?
Answer: Stunting
Low weight for height in children, a sign of acute undernutrition?
Answer: Wasting
Measure combining calorie deficiency, child undernutrition and child mortality to rank countries?
Answer: Global Hunger Index
Adult BMI at or above which a person is classed as obese?
Answer: 30 kg/m²
Malnutrition from consuming more energy than the body needs, raising rates of obesity?
Answer: Overnutrition
Lack of vitamins and minerals such as iron and iodine, despite enough calories?
Answer: Hidden hunger
Shift from infectious to chronic, lifestyle-related causes of death as countries develop?
Answer: Epidemiological transition
Years of healthy life lost to illness, disability or early death?
Answer: DALYs
Average number of years a person can expect to live in full health?
Answer: HALE
Long-lasting, non-infectious illnesses such as heart conditions and type 2 diabetes?
Answer: Non-communicable diseases
Share of people whose usual dietary energy intake is below minimum requirements (FAO)?
Answer: Undernourishment
Deaths before the age of five per 1,000 live births?
Answer: Child mortality rate
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options were written for that question.