Nutrition in preventive medicine : the major deficiency syndromes, epidemiology, and approaches to control / edited by G. H. Beaton & J. M. Bengoa. - Geneva : World Health Organization, 1976. - 590 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Monograph series - World Health Organization ; no. 62 . - Monograph series (World Health Organization) ; no. 62. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

chapter 1: Nutrition and health in perspective: an introduction

Part 1: The major deficiency syndromes
chapter 2: Protein-energy malnutrition
chapter 3: Nutritional anaemias
chapter 4: Endemic goitre
chapter 5: Xerophthalmia
chapter 6: Rickets and osteomalacia
chapter 7: Scurvy
chapter 8: Pellagra
chapter 9: Beriberi
chapter 10: Some other nutritional deficiencies

Part 2: Epidemiology
chapter 11: Epidemiological principles in nutrition
chapter 12: Epidemiology applied to nutrition
chapter 13: Nutritional epidemiology: experience and experiment
chapter 14: Synergism of malnutrition and infectious disease

Part 3: Approaches to control
chapter 15: Some concepts and practical considerations in planning and evaluation
chapter 16: The family unit in health programmes
chapter 17: Special nutritional considerations in the urban and Peri-urban setting
chapter 18: Surveillance of the population at risk: the community
chapter 19: Immunization programmes in the context of prevention of malnutrition
chapter 20: Nutrition education
chapter 21: Supplementary feeding programmes
chapter 22: Distribution of vitamin and mineral supplements
Chapter 23: Nutritional rehabilitation
Chapter 24: Food production
Chapter 25: Food marketing
Chapter 26: Food fortification
Chapter 27: Processed weaning foods
Chapter 28: Nutritional aspects of disasters
Chapter 29: Planning and organization of a national food and nutrition policy

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Malnutrition.
Deficiency diseases.
Malnutrition--Prevention.
Epidemiology.

WB 400 N976 1976