Nutrition and Health in a Developing World - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3319437372 ISBN 13 : 9783319437378

Editeur : Springer International Publishing AG, 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Saskia de Pee, PhDSenior Technical Advisor, Nutrition Division, UN World Food ProgrammeRome, ItalyAdjunct Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts UniversityBoston, MD Douglas Taren, PhDProfessor of Public HealthMel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public HealthUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZ Martin W. Bloem, MD, PhDSenior Nutrition Advisor/ WFP Global Coordinator UNAIDS, United Nations World Food ProgrammeRome, ItalyAdjunct Associate Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimore, MDAdjunct Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing AG
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319437372
• ISBN 13: 9783319437378
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 827
• Éditeur: De Pee Saskia, Taren Douglas, Bloem Martin W
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