Nutrition And Health In A Developing World

Author : Richard David Semba,Martin W. Bloem
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781597454643

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Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries by Richard David Semba,Martin W. Bloem Pdf

This updated and expanded book was written with the underlying conviction that global health and nutrition problems can only be solved through a firm understanding of the different levels of causality and the interactions between the various determinants. This volume provides policy makers, nutritionists, students, scientists, and professionals with the most recent and up-to-date knowledge regarding major health and nutritional problems in developing countries.

Author : Saskia de Pee,Douglas Taren,Martin W. Bloem
Publisher : Humana Press
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319437392

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Nutrition and Health in a Developing World by Saskia de Pee,Douglas Taren,Martin W. Bloem Pdf

This third edition reviews the epidemiology, policies, programs and outcome indicators that are used to determine improvements in nutrition and health that lead to development. This greatly expanded third edition provides policy makers, nutritionists, students, scientists, and professionals with the most recent and up-to-date knowledge regarding major health and nutritional problems in developing countries. Policies and programs that address the social and economic determinants of nutrition and health are now gaining in importance as methods to improve the status of the most vulnerable people in the world. This volume provides the most current research and strategies so that policy makers, program managers, researchers and students have knowledge and resources that they can use to advance methods for improving the public’s health and the development of nations. The third edition of Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries takes on a new context where the word “developing” is now a verb and not an adjective.

Author : Michael C. Latham,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : 925103818X

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Human Nutrition in the Developing World by Michael C. Latham,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

In this publication, Professor Michael Latham draws upon his far-reaching experience in the field of international nutrition to provide a rich source of information about nutrition science, public health, food science and public policy. The text summarizes key points in human nutrition and provides information about protein, fats, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins. Special emphasis is given to the nutritional needs of infants, children, mothers and the elderly. Basic information about foods commonly found in the diets of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans is given. The book focuses on the nutritional and health consequences of inadequate food consumption. Each major nutritional disorder is described and factors contributing to malnutrition such as low food production, food insecurity, poor health status and social and cultural factors are reviewed. [This is a reprint of the 1997 edition.]

Author : Felicity Savage King,Ann Burgess,V. J. Quinn,Akoto K. Osei
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780199685226

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Nutrition for Developing Countries by Felicity Savage King,Ann Burgess,V. J. Quinn,Akoto K. Osei Pdf

Nutrition is an essential component of the work of all health and community workers, including those involved in humanitarian assistance, and yet it is often neglected in their basic training. Drawn from the experiences of an international editor team with extensive field experience, Nutrition for Developing Countries brings together the essential basics of nutrition in an easily accessible form which is accurate, up-to-date and practical, and suitable for a wide range of readers at different levels. The book covers the whole life cycle, including pregnancy, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, older children, adolescents, adults and the elderly, with an emphasis on the most vulnerable women and children. The fully revised and updated edition addresses both the long standing problems of undernutrition and malnutrition, and the growing epidemic of overnutrition and obesity, which are responsible for the rapid increase in non-communicable diseases of later life. Generously illustrated, Nutrition for Developing Countries explains in clear simple language, and practical detail, how nutrition workers can help families with nutrition problems, including many ideas for exercises for training nutrition workers.

Author : Norman J. Temple ,Nelia Steyn
Publisher : Athabasca University Press and UNISA Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781927356111

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Community Nutrition for Developing Countries by Norman J. Temple ,Nelia Steyn Pdf

Nutrition textbooks used by universities and colleges in developing countries have very often been written by scholars who live and work in North America or the United Kingdom. And while the research and information they present is sound, the nutrition-related health challenges with which developing countries must grapple differ considerably from those found in highly industrialized Western nations. The primary aim of Community Nutrition for Developing Countries is to provide a book that meets the needs of nutritionists and other health professionals living and working in developing countries. Written by both scholars and practitioners, the volume draws on their wealth of knowledge, experience, and understanding of nutrition in developing countries to provide nutrition professionals with all the information they require. Each chapter addresses a specific nutrition challenge currently faced by developing countries such as food security, food safety, disease prevention, maternal health, and effective nutrition policy. In addition, the volume serves as an invaluable resource for those developing and implementing nutrition education programmes. With an emphasis on nutritional education as a means to prevent disease and effectively manage health disorders, it is the hope of the nearly three dozen contributors to this work that it will enhance the health and well-being of low-income populations throughout the world.

Author : Sheila Chander Vir
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1253 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789380308753

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Public Health and Nutrition in Developing Countries (Part I and II) by Sheila Chander Vir Pdf

The book presents an update on public health and nutrition problems of developing countries with a description of approaches used and efficiency of trials undertaken for addressing these. Additionally, it highlights the experiences emerging from up-scaling intervention programme planning and implementation.

Author : Pradip K. Ghosh
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:319510009866602

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Health, Food, and Nutrition in Third World Development by Pradip K. Ghosh Pdf

The development of effective health, food, and nutrition policies are essential to the rapid economic and social development of Third World countries. The essays in this volume cover basic issues such as development of the food supply, health care programs, the human environment, nutrition and malnutrition, the politics of food scarcity, and the impact of health and nutrition on the economy.

Author : Felicity Savage King,Ann Burgess
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0192622331

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Nutrition for Developing Countries by Felicity Savage King,Ann Burgess Pdf

Nutrition for Developing Countries is both a textbook of nutrition - covering the essential facts about nutrients, nutrient needs, foods, ane meals - and at the same time a practical guide for nutrition workers - be they health workers, agricultural workers, home economists, or school teachers- or their trainers. It explains in clear simple language, and practical detail, how nutrition workers can help families with nutrition problems, how to treat malnourished children, and how to work in communities, and in schools. This information is not easily available elsewhere, and no othermanual covers the subject so comprehensively. The manual is liberty illustrated, with many new drawings, as well as some from the old edition of the book.This new edition of a popular and widely-used book brings the subject up-to-date, and takes it to a slightly more advanced level, and includes new ideas on working in and with communities, and about nutrition education. It includes many ideas for exercises for training nutrition workers. Nutritionfor Developing Countries fills the role of the first edition, and retains its simple approach, but covers the subject in greater depth and more widely.

Author : Sheila Chander Vir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nutrition
ISBN : OCLC:801785544

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Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries by Sheila Chander Vir Pdf

Author : Roderick Floud,Robert W. Fogel,Bernard Harris,Sok Chul Hong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139500807

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The Changing Body by Roderick Floud,Robert W. Fogel,Bernard Harris,Sok Chul Hong Pdf

Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. It examines how we define and measure health and nutrition as well as key issues such as whether increased longevity contributes to greater productivity or, instead, imposes burdens on society through the higher costs of healthcare and pensions. The result is a major contribution to economic and social history with important implications for today's developing world and the health trends of the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080492346

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The Nutrition Transition by Anonim Pdf

This book deals with the dramatic changes in diet and lifestyle that are occurring in the developing world as a result of globalization, and their impact on human healt. The Editors have assembled a leading group of scientists in teh fields of economics, population sciences, international health, medicine, nutrition and food sciences, to address each of the key issues related to the changes in demographic trends, food production and marketing, and disease patterns in the developing world. The Nutrition Transition provides essential information to understand the far-reaching effects that global economic, social and cultural trends are having on diet-related disease patersin in countries of transition. Contains numerous illustrative figures and tables Two case studies included-on China and Brazil Foreword written by Nevin Scrimshaw, recipient of the World Food Prize

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9780821364000

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Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development by Anonim Pdf

Persistent malnutrition is contributing not only to widespread failure to meet the first MDG--to halve poverty and hunger--but to meet other goals in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, education, and gender equity. The choice is now between continuing to fail, or to finally make nutrition central to development. Underweight prevalence among children is the key indicator for measuring progress on non-income poverty and malnutrition remains the world's most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality. Nearly a third of children in the developing world are either.

Author : Norman J. Temple,Nelia Patricia Steyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nutrition
ISBN : 1868887898

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Community Nutrition for Developing Countries by Norman J. Temple,Nelia Patricia Steyn Pdf

"Nutrition textbooks used by universities and colleges in developing countries have very often been written by scholars who live and work in North America or the United Kingdom. And while the research and information they present is sound, the nutrition-related health challenges with which developing countries must grapple differs considerably from those found in highly industrialized Western nations. The primary aim of Community Nutrition for Developing Countries is to address this issue. Written by both scholars and practitioners, the volume draws on their wealth of knowledge, experience, and understanding of nutrition in developing countries to provide nutrition professionals with the proper tools for the assessment and evaluation of nutritional status. Each chapter addresses a specific nutrition challenge currently faced by developing countries such as food security, food safety, disease prevention, maternal health, and effective nutrition policy. In addition, the volume serves as an invaluable resource for those developing and implementing nutrition education programmes. With an emphasis on nutritional education as a means to prevent disease and effectively manage health disorders, it is the hope of the nearly three dozen contributors to this work that it will enhance the health and wellbeing of low income populations throughout the world."--

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 925105228X

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Globalization of Food Systems in Developing Countries by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Includes papers and case studies presented at a FAO workshop held in Rome, Italy from 8 to 10 October 2003

Author : Donald A. P. Bundy,Nilanthi de Silva,Susan Horton,Dean T. Jamison
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464804397

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Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 8) by Donald A. P. Bundy,Nilanthi de Silva,Susan Horton,Dean T. Jamison Pdf

More children born today will survive to adulthood than at any time in history. It is now time to emphasize health and development in middle childhood and adolescence--developmental phases that are critical to health in adulthood and the next generation. Child and Adolescent Health and Development explores the benefits that accrue from sustained and targeted interventions across the first two decades of life. The volume outlines the investment case for effective, costed, and scalable interventions for low-resource settings, emphasizing the cross-sectoral role of education. This evidence base can guide policy makers in prioritizing actions to promote survival, health, cognition, and physical growth throughout childhood and adolescence.