It is a frightening reality for some people to be caught up in the midst of a disaster, alone and vulnerable due to their relative size, shape or weight. A literature search failed to find any empirical reports of data specific to body mass index (BMI) in disaster situations. A handful of largely anecdotal reports described situations in which people categorised as morbidly obese were negativel...

conspicuously enough, millennium development goals (un-mdg) indexes cover the various aspects of economic development in countries. indeed, mdgs are collected from the world bank and the imf indexes that were used for monitoring economics status. every member of the un is subjected to report the required data in former designed format and frequency. furthermore reported data and usage of indexe...