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Nutrition in public health : principles, policies, and practice

Title
  1. Nutrition in public health : principles, policies, and practice / Arlene Spark.
Published by
  1. Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2007.
Author
  1. Spark, Arlene, 1945-

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Description
  1. 552 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
  1. "Nutrition plays a key role in many areas of public health such as pre-term delivery, cancer, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular and renal diseases. Government nutrition policy, therefore, bears a huge influence on the nation's biggest health concerns. Nutrition in Public Health: Principles, Policies, and Practice integrates discussions of nutrition policy and health issues, an approach that could hold the key to the primary and secondary prevention of some of the major causes of premature death in the United States."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Nutrition policy > United States
  2. Nutrition > United States
  3. Public health > United States
  4. Diet in disease
  5. Nutrition > Evaluation
  6. Nutrition policy
  7. Health promotion
  8. Nutritional Status
  9. Nutrition Policy
  10. Health Promotion
  11. Diet
  12. Nutrition Assessment
  13. Nutrition > Evaluation
  14. Health promotion
  15. Diet in disease
  16. Nutrition
  17. Nutrition policy
  18. Public health
  19. Gesundheitsvorsorge
  20. Ernährungspolitik
  21. Ernährungserhebung
  22. Gesundheit
  23. Ernährungskrankheit
  24. Chronische Krankheit
  25. Gesundheitswesen
  26. Ernährung
  27. United States
  28. USA
Contents
  1. Nutrition in public health -- Preventing disease or promoting health? -- The U.S. population -- looking forward from the past -- Nutritional epidemiology -- Food and nutrition surveys for monitoring the public's health -- Prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases: disparities and programs to reduce them -- Weight control: challenges and solutions -- Special populations -- Cultural competence -- Food and nutrition politics, policy, and legislation -- Food and nutrition guidance -- Food and nutrition assessment of the community -- Promoting food security -- Social marketing and other mass communication techniques -- Food safety and defense -- Grants to support initiatives in public health nutrition.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.