Nutrition and Health in a Developing World [Hardcover]

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 publics 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.Section I: History of Nutrition.- Nutrition and Development: Historical Perspective.- Section II: Contextualizing International Nutrition: Considering Benefit Cost, Evidence Base and Capacity.- Nutrition Evidence in Context.- Growing Capacity to Deliver Nutrition in Post 2015 World.- Section III: Malnutrition, Nutrients and (Breast) Milk Explained.- Malnutrition Spectrum.- Child Growth and Development.- Overweight and Obesity.- Nutrient Needs and Approaches to Meeting Them.- Vitamin A.- Iron.- Zinc.- Iodine.- Vitamin D.- Essential Fatty Acids.- Role or Milk in Nutrition.- The Role of Breastfeeding Protection, Promotion, and Support in a Developing World.- Section IV: Tuberculosis, HIV, and the Role of Nutrition.- Tuberculosis.- HIV.- Tuberculosis in Relation to Nutrition.- HIV and HIV/TB Co-infection in Relation to Nutrition.- Section V: Nutrition and Health in Different Phases of the Life CyclÓ.