Nutrition and Health in a Developing World

Saskia De Pee

ISBN 10: 3319437372 / ISBN 13: 9783319437378

Published by Palgrave Macmillan Feb 2017, 2017

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 872 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nutrition and Health in a Developing World
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Feb 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319437372
• ISBN 13: 9783319437378
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 260W x 183H x 52D millimeters 260 millimeters width by 183 millimeters height by 52 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1804 grams

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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 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