Nutrition and Health in a Developing World - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319437372 ISBN 13: 9783319437378

Publisher: Humana, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Saskia de Pee, PhD

Senior  Technical Advisor, Nutrition Division, UN World Food Programme

Rome, Italy

Adjunct Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

Boston, MD

 

Douglas Taren, PhD

Professor of Public Health

Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

 

Martin W. Bloem, MD, PhD

Senior Nutrition Advisor/ WFP Global Coordinator UNAIDS, United Nations World Food Programme

Rome, Italy

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore, MD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

From the Back Cover

This third edition reviews the epidemiology, policies, programs and outcome indicators that are important and should go together to improve nutrition and health in low-middle income settings (i.e. a developing world). This greatly expanded third edition provides policy makers, program managers, students and scientists in the area of public health and nutrition with the most recent and up-to-date knowledge regarding major health and nutritional problems in low-middle income settings. Experience with policies and programs that address both the biomedical as well as the social and economic determinants of nutrition and health as a way to improve the health and nutrition situation, and hence the development, of the most vulnerable people in the world, is increasing. This volume provides the most current overview of research and strategies so that policy makers, program managers, academics and students have knowledge and resources that they can use to advance the public’s health and the development of nations to meet the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.  The third edition of Nutrition and Health in a Developing World takes on a new context where the word “developing” is now a verb and not an adjective.

Edition details

• Publisher: Humana
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319437372
• ISBN 13: 9783319437378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 871
• Editor: De Pee Saskia, Taren Douglas, Bloem Martin W.