Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries

Volume I

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This book explores the intersection of nutrition and public health to analyze the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. It details evidence-based strategies, global health challenges, and nutrition-sensitive issues to cover the important aspects of nutrition, which are essential for developing an understanding of public health. The subject matter of this book includes: Nutrition epidemiology for developing countriesNutrition care of adolescentsDual nutrition burden in womenSevere Acute Malnutrition (SAM)Nutrition for the elderlyPrint edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-17
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor848
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032840727

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Sheila Chander Vir is senior Public Health Nutrition consultant and the Founder Director of Public Health Nutrition and Development Centre, New Delhi, India. She completed MSc (Foods and Nutrition) from Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India and PhD from the Institute of Clinical Sciences, Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom. She was also Programme Officer (Nutrition) with UNICEF (India) where she provided strategic and technical leadership for policy formulation and implementation of nutrition programmes in India and the state of Uttar Pradesh.

ForewordPrefaceList of Contributors1. Investing in nutrition: Central to sustainable development2. Principles of epidemiology and epidemiological methods3. Nutrition epidemiology for developing countries4. Measuring undernutrition and overnutrition in children5. Undernutrition in children: Significance, current situation, determinants, programme principles and intervention package6. Essential newborn health and nutrition care: Emerging and evolving interventions and program scenario: Global and India7. Nutrition care of term, preterm and sick newborns8. Optimal infant and young child feeding9. Protection, promotion and support to breastfeeding10. Optimal neonatal nutrition and care: Early and exclusive breastfeeding and human milk banking support system11. Complementary feeding: Programme design framework, implementation and measuring progress12. Infant and young child feeding: Tracking development in policy, community-based program strategy and emerging lessons for future direction in LMICs13. Nutrition care in the first year of life: Significance, key experiences and emerging lessons in preventing growth faltering and promoting “catch up” growth14. Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): Community and facility-based management15. Prevention and management of overweight and obesity in children16. Nutrition care of adolescents: Crucial for optimum growth, development and intergenerational health17. Improving women’s nutrition: Critical for breaking the life cycle of malnutrition18. Dual nutrition burden in women19. Nutrition for the elderly