Global Hunger Index (Thread) In this thread I will explain in very simple language How GHI is measured and I will leave on u to judge- 1. Is their method correct ? 2. Their parameter actually represent hunger ? 1/12 Pic credit : Opindia
GHI is prepared by a German NGO Welthungerhilfe that is funded by Bill Gates foundation, UNO, German govt etc. They use 4 parameters to measure hunger. 1. Undernourishment (PUN) 2. Wasting (CWA) 3. Stunting (CST) 4. Child mortality (CM)
Undernourishment - How many people get less than 1800 calories p day Wasting - weight/height of less than 5 year old children with ref to WHO standard Stunting - height/age of less than 5 year old children with ref to WHO standard Child mortality - kids die/1000 before 5 year
Now understand why this method is flawed to measure hunger - Indians have low metabolism compare to other so 1800 calories per day criteria cant be used uniformly worldwide. Like I take 1500 calories per day so according to GHI, I sleep hungry everyday ?
- International measures of height and weight cant be compared to Indian kids - It doesn't take care genetics - How height and weight of kid gives information abt hunger ? - They assume that any kid dies is from hunger that is completely wrong assumption
65% of kids die in first 4 week due to medical reasons n hunger has nothing to do in that case - Diarrhea and Pneumonia r other major reasons of child mortality but GHI assumes any kid that die before 5 year is die from hunger
Weightage given to each parameters: Undernourishment - 33% Child stunting - 17% Child wasting - 17% Child mortality - 33% You can see 67% weightage given to only Children that too on useless parameters so GHI represent hunger of all population ?
These r the score of India n Pakistan in all 4 parameters to compare. The score of calorie intake and child weight is almost similar from last 20 years for India India's score is 29.1 Pakistan 26.1 China that is No 1 in the list is have less than 5 less score better ranking
Now this one is very interesting In 2020 Indian Council of Medical Research did a research. They wanted to check whether these 4 parameters actually represent hunger So they took sample of 40% top rich and upper middle class people of India n calculated their score
on these GHI's 4 parameters And do u know what they got ? Rich Indians also failed. undernourishment, stunted and wasted children in scores were 7.3, 25.7 and 18.6 per cent, respectively, while the under-five mortality per 1000 live births was 25.8
They also found stunting and wasting score very high in overweight mothers. So if mother is over weight how their kids can stay hungry n fail in these indicator U can read full research here
journals.lww.com/ijmr/Fulltext/…
So I reject the notion that the indicators of undernourishment, stunting, wasting and CM used in the GHI are the causes or the consequences of hunger. The method of GHI is flawed n ignore genetics n environment of that country What do u think ? End of thread 12/12
