Chronic hunger persists when people lack the opportunity to earn enough income, to receive an education, to gain skills, to meet basic health needs and to have a voice in the decisions that affect their community.
From a socio-legal perspective, Gostin [ 102] provides a critical analysis of current global health architecture and need for change in order to meet basic health needs and to ensure greater country ownership and autonomy within health.
Even in U.S. emergencies, basic health needs related to menstruation are not prioritized.
Why do many of us struggle to address basic health needs like getting to the gym, eating breakfast, and taking weekly time to socialize?
Significant progress has been made to meet basic health needs, but challenges remain to ensure that health care provided is of reliable quality to predictably improve health outcomes over time.
However, developing countries' challenges are due to many factors, such as the growing gap between basic health needs and available resources to satisfy them, the lack of reliable information, few systematic and formal processes for decision making, multiple obstacles to implementation such as inadequately developed social sectors, weak institutions and marked social inequalities (9, 10, 6).
It occurs "when people lack the opportunity to earn enough income, to be educated and gain skills, to meet basic health needs and have a voice in the decisions that affect their community," according to the Hunger Project, a global nonprofit committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.
Ghana's health care system during this era was chronically under staffed, under stocked and generally failed to meet the basic health needs of the populace that it set out to address in the first place [ 5- 9].
Since then, the school lunch program has become dominated by a few large food contractors designed to feed a population suffering from a lack of resources, without catering to its basic health needs.
Additionally, extraterritorial duties oblige wealthier countries to support those countries unable to ensure the basic health needs of their populations.
