CONTENTS:- Occurrence and Reoccurrence of Key Communicable Disease; Occupational Health; Mental Health; Vector Borne Disease; Major Causes of Morbidity and Mortality; Tuberculosis; Leprosy; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Vaccine Preventable Diseases; Iodine Deficiency and the Resulting Disorder; Blindness; Disability; Maternal Nutrition; Maternal and Child Health; Gender and Nutrition in the Global Burden of Diseases 1990 to 2020; Priority Nutrition Inventions; Ending Malnutrition by 2020; An Agenda for change in the Millennium; Global Nutrition Challenges: A Life-Cycle Approach; Societal Issues Underlying Malnutrition Implications for Progress; Food, Agriculture and Environment: Future Challenges; Food Nutrition and Human Rights; Vision and Goals for the Future; Establishing A New Agenda for Change.
DESCRIPTION
The aim of this book is to provide practical background of knowledge to all those concerned with the health and nutrition that will explain why preventive treatment and, improvement in the health and feeding of infants, young children and their mothers, is necessary, and how this may be done.