Control No.

20-SSSS04-

Health and Nutrition of Women and Men

in the Philippines

2018 Expanded National Nutrition Survey 2017 National Demographic and Health Survey
Prevalence Rate (%) Mortality Rates among Children
0 to 5 years old Neonatal
Under-5
Mortality
Mortality
Rate f
UNDERWEIGHT

f
a
Stunted
b Rate
Underweight (0 - 59 months)
14.0 13.0 (0 - 1 month)
19.2 19.1 29.4 31.1 26.0 28.0
Girl Boy Girl Boy Postneonatal
Mortality
Rate f Child
5.08 to 10 years old (1 -12 months)
Mortality
UNDERWEIGHT
7.0 8.0 Rate
f
(12 - 60 months)
a b
Underweight Stunted Infant
Mortality 6.0 7.0
22.0 27.9 22.6 26.5 Rate f
Girl Boy Girl Boy
(0 -12 months)
21.0 21.0 Girl Boy
Source: PSA
Overweight-for- Overweight/Obese 2016 National Disability Prevalence Survey
c d
height Children Children Percentage Distribution of Age 15 and Older,
by Disability Level g
Severe Moderate Mild None
0 to 5 years old 5.08 to 10
years old 14.6 48.5 20.0 16.9
3.7 4.4 10.4 13.0 0 25 50 75 100

Girl Boy
OVERWEIGHT
Girl Boy
9.2 44.9 25.1 20.7
0 25 50 75 100
e
Obese
2010 Census of Population and Housing
Top 3 Most Common Type of Functional Difficulty
20 years on Women and Men (5 years and over) h
old & over

11.4 6.5
Women Men Seeing even if Walking and Hearing even if
wearing eyeglasses climbing steps using hearing aid
Source: FNRI Source: PSA
Notes:
a/World Health Organization (WHO)- Child Growth Standards weight-for-age classification. Acronyms:
b/WHO - Child Growth Standards height-for-age classification. FNRI - Food and Nutrition Research Institute
c/WHO - Child Growth Standards weight-for-height classification. PSA - Philippine Statistics Authority
d/Overweight and obese nutritional status are based on WHO-Child Growth Standards Body Mass Index-for-age classification.
e/Covers adults aged 20 years old and over and based on WHO-Body Mass Index .
f/Rate per 1000 live births for the 5-year period preceding the survey.
g/The National Disability Prevalence Survey or Model Functioning Survey (NDPS/MFS) used the WHO concept or understanding of disability which is the outcome of the
interaction between the health conditions and impairments of an individual and his/her environment whether physical, social, attitudinal and/or political.
h/ A person with difficulty in functioning may have activity limitations, which means difficulties an individual may have in executing activities. In general, functional difficulties
experienced by people may have been due to their health conditions.

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