Global acute malnutrition

Global acute malnutrition (GAM) is a measurement of the nutritional status of a population that is often used in protracted refugee situations. Along with the crude mortality rate, it is one of the basic indicators for assessing the severity of a humanitarian crisis.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.