A systematic assessment of the position is required to understand the needs of each side.

For white:
A simple pawn count is not enough to asses the position. Although white is a pawn ahead the problem is that there are two sets of doubled pawns. 

• The doubled f-pawns are not weak and do a good job of protecting the king. However, the broken structure makes them immobile and the kingside will have trouble producing a passed pawn
• The doubled c-pawns are also not weak. They are part of a group of three and can easily protect each other.
• The bishop is a strong piece compared to the knight as play is spread out over the whole board.

For black:

• Ra2 and Ne2 are very active and spread chaos behind the ranks. The knight attacks c3 and holds up the f-pawns.
• Ra8 is not active
• The pawn structure is sound and white’s rooks have trouble penetrating black’s position.
• The a-pawn is potentially very useful as a source of counterplay but for now …a5 is not possible.

• The play is spread out over the whole board which favors the long-range bishop.
• The knight is unstable on e5(the f4 advance is easy to prepare)
• White’s pawns are easy for the king to defend and the doubled f-pawns are not weak.
• Black’s passed a,c pawns are easy to defend against as black is poorly placed to support their advance.