Keynote Speech: Micronutrient Malnutrition

Keynote Speech

Technology is accessible if it can be used just as effectively by people with disabilities as it can by those without. Many people are surprised to learn just how much of the world’s population is affected by a disability, and how valuable accessible design is to government, private industry, and educational institutions. To understand the impact, one has to look no further than the World Healt...

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This presentation illustrates my quest for diversity, more specifically resonant interaction. Resonance occurs due to the perfect matching interplay between a person and a product. It evokes strong positive emotions, unique accompanying behaviour, heightened awareness and cognitive processing. In this presentation, I first explain the importance of diversifying designs, especially now we are pu...

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Malnutrition, Micronutrient Deficiences and Reproductive Ill Health in the LAC Region1 Protein-energy and micronutrient malnutrition

• Throughout the developing world women die during pregnancy and in childbirth from hemorrhage (20-35%), unsafe abortion (10-15%), eclampsia or hypertension (10-15%), infection (10-15%), and obstructed labor (10-15%) (see Technical Note 1). Those that survive spend their reproductive years suffering from chronic anemia and the debilitating consequences of complications associated with reproduct...

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