Community Nutrition for Developing Countries (Paperback)

Paperback. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.