Malnutrition: Food for thought.
It has been suggested that the majority of malnourished persons do not represent a medical problem. They are afflicted by socio-economic disease and the onus is on society to provide the cure which should be economic and organisational, and which would best be co-ordinated by a small group of medical personnel with an interest in the problem.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005380:Financing, Government; D005523:Food Supply; D006266:Health Education; D006760:Hospitalization; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012106:Research; D013019:South Africa; D014505:Urban Population