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Nutrition in preventive medicine : the major deficiency syndromes, epidemiology, and approaches to control / edited by G. H. Beaton & J. M. Bengoa.

Contributor(s): Series: Monograph series (World Health Organization) ; no. 62.Publication details: Geneva : World Health Organization, 1976.Description: 590 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9241400625 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • WB 400 N976 1976
Contents:
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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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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