Community Nutrition for Developing Countries - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1927356113 ISBN 13: 9781927356111

Publisher: Athabasca University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Written by both scholars and practitioners, the volume draws ontheir wealth of knowledge, experience, and understanding of nutritionin developing countries to provide nutrition professionals with theproper tools for the assessment and evaluation of nutritional status.Each chapter addresses a specific nutrition challenge currently facedby developing countries such as food security, food safety, diseaseprevention, maternal health, and effective nutrition policy. Inaddition, the volume serves as an invaluable resource for thosedeveloping and implementing nutrition education programmes. With anemphasis on nutritional education as a means to prevent disease andeffectively manage health disorders, it is the hope of the nearly threedozen contributors to this work that it will enhance the health andwellbeing of low-income populations throughout the world.

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About the Author

Norman J. Temple, professor of nutrition at AthabascaUniversity and has published more than 60 papers, predominantly in thearea of nutrition as it relates to health, and has published more thana dozen books. Currently, he is conducting collaborative research inCape Town on the role of the changing diet in South Africa and on thepattern of chronic diseases in that country. NeliaSteyn lives and works in South Africa. She is a seniorlecturer in the Division of Human Nutrition at the University of CapeTown and has served as a consultant for the World Health Organizationand the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1927356113
• ISBN 13: 9781927356111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 540
• Editor: Temple Norman J., Steyn Nelia