1st Edition
Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries Volume II
This book explores the intersection of nutrition and public health to analyze the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. It includes chapters detailing important concepts such as food-agriculture, food systems, dietary diversity, food fortification, water-sanitation, and conditional and non-conditional cash, which are essential in keeping the readers updated with the recent information and critical for developing an understanding of public health. The subject matter of this book includes:
- Universal Salt Iodization (USI) and Double Fortified Salt
- Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young children
- Leveraging agriculture for nutrition
- Nutrition-sensitive food systems
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
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20. Malnutrition and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Shweta Khandelwal
21 Metabolism of iron, folic acid and vitamin B12
K. Madhavan Nair
22. Nutritional anaemia during critical life periods: Pregnancy, early childhood and adolescence
Subadra Seshadri and Jai Ghanekar
23. Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young children
Sheila C. Vir, Kapil Yadav and Gomathi Ramaswamy
24. Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in adolescent girls
Sheila C. Vir, Kapil Yadav, Gomathi Ramaswamy
25. Vitamin A deficiency: Prevention and control
Sheila C. Vir
26. National iodine deficiency disorders control programme, India
Sheila C. Vir, Kapil Yadav, Kashish Vohra
27. Universal Salt Iodization (USI) and Double Fortified Salt: Iron and Iodine (DFS)
M. G. Venkatesh Mannar and Meena H. Jadhav
28. Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) Control Program: Sustaining Progress Imperative
Chandrakant S. Pandav, Kapil Yadav, Srishti Arora
29. Food fortification to address micronutrient deficiencies
M. G. Venkatesh Mannar and Meena H. Jadhav
30. Fortification of Wheat Flour (FWF) with iron, folic Acid and B12
Sheila C. Vir
31. Leveraging agriculture for nutrition
Bhavani R V and Priya Rampal
32. Nutrition-sensitive food systems: Experience and current scenario in developing countries
Lalita Bhattacharjee, Richemont Seki and Kraisid Tontisirin
33. Dietary diversity: Significance, determinants, interventions and diversity measures
Shavika Gupta and Sheila C. Vir
34. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): A nutrition-sensitive intervention
Sheila C. Vir and Reema Chugh
35. Cash Transfer (CT) programmes and maternal, infant and young child nutrition: Experiences of low and middle-income countries
Sheila C. Vir and Reema Chugh
36. Developing social and behaviour change programs for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) at scale
Ruchin Sharma, Sebanti Ghosh and Tina Sanghvi
37. Planning and implementation of public health nutrition programs: Principles and practice
Jyoti Sharma
38. Monitoring and evaluation: Public health nutrition programmes
Sheila C. Vir and Reema Chugh
39. Research methods in public health and nutrition
Padam Singh and Arun. K. Nigam
Index
Biography
Sheila Chander Vir is senior Public Health Nutrition consultant and the Founder Director of Public Health Nutrition and Development Centre, New Delhi, India. She completed MSc (Foods and Nutrition) from Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India and PhD from the Institute of Clinical Sciences, Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom. She was also Programme Officer (Nutrition) with UNICEF (India) where she provided strategic and technical leadership for policy formulation and implementation of nutrition programmes in India and the state of Uttar Pradesh.
