Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries - 2-Volume Set focuses on application of public health and nutrition sciences for formulating strategies and actions for preventing and solving the serious problem of malnutrition in developing countries.
Within a result-based framework, Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries highlights the lessons that would facilitate:
- formulation of policies
- development of strategies
- designing of programs
Additionally, this work highlights experiences emerging from up-scaling intervention trials to program models and elaborates on the principles of public health nutrition for a wide spectrum of public health nutrition issues and provides an update on current knowledge.
Contents
Section 1: Epidemiology
- Principles of epidemiology and epidemiologic methods
- Nutritional epidemiology for developing countries
Section 2: Malnutrition in Woment and Children
- Undernutrition in children
- Dual nutrition burden in women: causes, consequences and control measures
- Measuring undernutrition and overnutrition in children
- Essential newborn care and child survival
- Integrating breastfeeding in public health programming-scientific facts, current status and future directions
- Complementary feeding of infants and young children
- Options and strategies to reach the under-two children through complementary feeding with ARF in South Asian countries
- Diarrhea and undernutrition
- Prevention and management of protein energy malnutrition
- Severe acute malnutrition in children
- Prevention and management of overweight and obesity in children
- HIV and nutrition
Section 3: Micronutrient Deficiency Disorders
- Vitamin A deficiency disorders (VADD)
- Vitamin A Metabolism
- Vitamin A Deficiency, prevention and control
- Vitamin A Prevention and control programme in India – past efforts and current status
- Iodine deficiency disorders
- Iodine metabolism and indicators of iodine status
- Sustaining iodine deficiency disorders control programme
- Iodine deficiency and iodine deficiency disorders control programme
- Universal salt iodisation
- National iodine deficiency control programme of India
- Nutritional anaemia
- Metabolism of iron, folic acid and vitamin B12
- Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young children
- Iron and multiple micronutrient supplementation in children: evidence from systematic reviews
- Nutritional anemia during pregnancy, early childhood and adolescence: the critical Development Periods
- Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in adolescent girls
- Zinc nutrition
- Zinc – an essential micronutrient for health and development
- Vitamin A and zinc supplements for child survival – experiences and challenges ahead
- Food fortification
- Addressing micronutrient malnutrition through food fortification
Section 4: Food, Nutrition and Health Programmes
- Agriculture, food and nutrition security
- Food and nutrition situation in India
Section 5: Nutrition in Emergencies and Disasters
- Food and nutrition in natural and man made disasters
Section 6: Geriatric Nutrition
Section 7: Chronic Degenerative Diseases
- Nutrition related non communicable chronic disorders
Section 8: Programme Planning and Implementation
- Programme planning: principles and essential elements
- Monitoring and evaluation of public health nutrition programmes
- District and village planning: a decentralized implementation approach in public health
- Nutrition health education and communication for improving women and child nutrition
- From research to programmes: applying knowledge to improve nutrition outcomes
- Research methods in public health nutrition - critical factors
Section 9: India Programmes
- Reducing malnutrition – an analysis of integrated child development services (ICDS) scheme
- National rural health mission
Index
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