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Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries

Volume II
 
Edition number: 1
Publisher: Routledge
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Short description:

This book analyzes the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. It discusses important concepts such as food-agriculture, food systems, dietary diversity, food fortification, and water-sanitation, which are essential for developing an understanding of public health. 

Long description:

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)


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Table of Contents:

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


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