Community Nutrition: Applying Epidemiology to Contemporary Practice

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 1996 - 601 pages
This book is divided into three sections, each covering a certain level of understanding about disease progression and health care intervention. The first section addresses nutrition in U.S. communities and lays the groundwork for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention; the second section focuses on primary prevention of disease by first addressing food-borne illness as a recurrent concern in a community and then discussing nutritional concerns of each age-specific group; and the third section and broadens the base of understanding of specific chronic diseases and the role of eating behavior in disease development. Written to fill the need for an intensive one-semester course in advanced community nutrition or nutritional epidemiology.

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Contents

EpidemiologyThe Foundation
3
Nutrition in the United States
28
The Territory of Epidemiology
79
The Community Nutrition Professional
84
Working with Special Groups in a Complex Environment
113
Nutrition Policy Health Care Reform and PopulationBased Change
158
PART IIPRIMARY PREVENTION OF DISEASE
185
Healthy Eating in Early LifeInfants and Preschoolers
207
Older Adults
350
PART IIISECONDARY AND TERTIARY PREVENTIONMANAGING
397
Cancer
433
Diabetes Mellitus
462
Hypertension
487
Obesity
505
Debilitating DiseasesOsteoporosis Alcoholism Arthritis
535
Single and Cluster Diseases
561

Nutrition for SchoolAge Children
247
Adults and Their Nutritional Needs
308
Index
589
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