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