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Nutrition and Health in a Developing World

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Editors:
  1. Saskia de Pee

    1. World Food Programme , Rome, Italy

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  2. Douglas Taren

    1. School of Public Health, University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman, Tucson, USA

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  3. Martin W. Bloem

    1. World Food Programme, Nutrition Division , Rome, Italy

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  • Greatly revised in response to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
  • Provides the most current overview of research and strategies
  • Intended for policy makers, program managers, scientists, students
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xliv
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  2. History of Nutrition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Nutrition and Development: A Historical Perspective

      • Richard D. Semba
      Pages 3-29

  3. Contextualizing International Nutrition—Considering Benefit-Cost, Evidence-Base and Capacity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Economics of Nutritional Interventions

      • Susan Horton
      Pages 33-45

    3. Nutrition Evidence in Context

      • Saskia de Pee, Rebecca F. Grais
      Pages 47-66

    4. Developing Capacity in Nutrition

      • Jessica C. Fanzo, Matthew M. Graziose
      Pages 67-88

  4. Malnutrition, Nutrients and (Breast)Milk Explained

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. The Spectrum of Malnutrition

      • Douglas Taren, Saskia de Pee
      Pages 91-117

    3. Child Growth and Development

      • Mercedes de Onis
      Pages 119-141

    4. Overweight and Obesity

      • Colleen M. Doak, Barry M. Popkin
      Pages 143-158

    5. Nutrient Needs and Approaches to Meeting Them

      • Saskia de Pee
      Pages 159-180

    6. Vitamin A Deficiency

      • Amanda C. Palmer, Ian Darnton-Hill, Keith P. West Jr.
      Pages 181-234

    7. Iron

      • Melissa Fox Young, Usha Ramakrishnan
      Pages 235-263

    8. Zinc Deficiency

      • Sonja Y. Hess
      Pages 265-285

    9. Iodine

      • Michael B. Zimmermann
      Pages 287-295

    10. Nutritional Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency

      • John M. Pettifor, Kebashni Thandrayen
      Pages 297-319

    11. Essential Fatty Acids

      • Esther Granot, Richard J. Deckelbaum
      Pages 321-335

    12. The Role of Human and Other Milks in Preventing and Treating Undernutrition

      • Benedikte Grenov, Henrik Friis, Christian Mølgaard, Kim Fleischer Michaelsen
      Pages 337-359

    13. The Role of Breastfeeding Protection, Promotion and Support in a Developing World

      • Douglas Taren, Chessa K. Lutter
      Pages 361-382
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • World Food Programme , Rome, Italy

    Saskia de Pee

  • School of Public Health, University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman, Tucson, USA

    Douglas Taren

  • World Food Programme, Nutrition Division , Rome, Italy

    Martin W. Bloem

About the editors

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



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nutrition and Health in a Developing World

  • Editors: Saskia de Pee, Douglas Taren, Martin W. Bloem

  • Series Title: Nutrition and Health

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43739-2

  • Publisher: Humana Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43737-8Published: 28 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82898-5Published: 13 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43739-2Published: 13 February 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2628-197X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: XLIV, 827

  • Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Clinical Nutrition

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