Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries

Volume II
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-84074-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 886 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

The last decade has witnessed continuous development in the field of public health nutrition, especially in terms of a shift from ‘what’ to “how”.

This book explores the intersection of nutrition and public health to analyze the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. It includes chapters detailing important concepts such as food-agriculture, food systems, dietary diversity, food fortification, water-sanitation, and conditional and non-conditional cash, which are essential in keeping the readers updated with the recent information and critical for developing an understanding of public health. The subject matter of this book includes:

- Universal Salt Iodization (USI) and Double Fortified Salt

- Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young children

- Leveraging agriculture for nutrition

- Nutrition-sensitive food systems

- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

Zielgruppe

Academic and General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chander Vir, Sheila

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

20. Malnutrition and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

21 Metabolism of iron, folic acid and vitamin B12

22. Nutritional anaemia during critical life periods: Pregnancy, early childhood and adolescence

23. Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young children

24. Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in adolescent girls

25. Vitamin A deficiency: Prevention and control

26. National iodine deficiency disorders control programme, India

27. Universal Salt Iodization (USI) and Double Fortified Salt: Iron and Iodine (DFS)

28. Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) Control Program: Sustaining Progress Imperative

29. Food fortification to address miconutrient deficiencies 

30. Fortification of Wheat Flour (FWF) with iron, folic Acid and B12

31. Leveraging agriculture for nutrition

32. Nutrition-sensitive food systems: Experience and current scenario in developing countries

33. Dietary diversity: Significance, determinants, interventions and diversity measures

34. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): A nutrition-sensitive intervention

35. Cash Transfer (CT) programmes and maternal, infant and young child nutrition: Experiences of low and middle-income countries

36. Developing social and behaviour change programs for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) at scale

37. Planning and implementation of public health nutrition programs: Principles and practice

38. Monitoring and evaluation: Public health nutrition programmes

39. Research methods in public health and nutrition

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sheila Chander Vir is senior Public Health Nutrition consultant and the Founder Director of Public Health Nutrition and Development Centre, New Delhi, India. She completed MSc (Foods and Nutrition) from Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India and PhD from the Institute of Clinical Sciences, Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom. She was also Programme Officer (Nutrition) with UNICEF (India) where she provided strategic and technical leadership for policy formulation and implementation of nutrition programmes in India and the state of Uttar Pradesh.