Providing the reader with a practice-focussed approach to public health nutrition intervention management, Practical Public Health Nutrition is a crucial resource for dietitians, community and public health nutritionists and related health professionals in need of a practical guide to practicing public health nutrition. Internationally recognised experts Hughes and Margetts describe in detail the rationale, processes and tools that can be used to assess population needs, analyse problems and develop effective interventions at a community level. Exercises in each section of the book contribute to a collective PHN intervention plan, providing the reader with the opportunity to demonstrate an outcome of intervention management. Unique in its approach to teaching the practical applications of this increasinly crucial discipline, Practical Public Health Nutrition is a vital purchase for anyone working in the public health arena INDICE: 1. Introduction to public health nutrition as a field of practice (definitions, frameworks and modes of practice).2. Global, national and local mandates for public health nutrition - food and nutrition policies and action plans.3. A framework for public health nutrition interventions (incorporates the following steps as separate chapters).4. Capacity building for public health nutrition action (includes stakeholder analysis).5. Need and Problem analysis.6. Determinant analysis.7. Prioritisation of effort- risk and benefit analysis.8. Intervention research.9. Intervention planning.10. Developing strategy portfolios.11. Planning for implementation.12. Evaluation.13. Lessons from the field ( a focus on mistakes made in the field as a way of reinforcing the importance of the above processes)
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-8360-4
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 17/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés