The last decade has witnessed continuous development in the field of public health nutrition – especially in terms of a shift from ‘what’ to “how”.
The two volumes of this book explore the intersection of nutrition and public health to analyze the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. Volume I details the evidence-based strategies, global health challenges, and nutrition-sensitive issues to cover the important aspects of nutrition, which are essential for developing an understanding of public health. Volume II covers other allied concepts such as food-agriculture, food systems, dietary diversity, food fortification, water-sanitation, and conditional and non-conditional cash.
The subject matter of this book includes:
- Nutrition epidemiology for developing countries
- Dual nutrition burden in women
- Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)
- Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young children
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
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Foreword
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Investing in nutrition: Central to sustainable development
Sheila C. Vir and Alok Ranjan
2. Principles of epidemiology and epidemiological methods
Sanjay P. Zodpey
3. Nutrition epidemiology for developing countries
Usha Ramakrishnan and Ines G. Casanova
4. Measuring undernutrition and overnutrition in children
Dheeraj Shah, Shalu Jain and H.P.S. Sachdev
5. Undernutrition in children: Significance, current situation, determinants, programme principles and intervention package
Sheila C. Vir
6. Essential newborn health and nutrition care: Emerging and evolving interventions and program scenario: Global and India
Richa Singh Pandey and Sheila C. Vir
7. Nutrition care of term, preterm and sick newborns
Tapas Bandyopadhyay and Arti Maria
8. Optimal infant and young child feeding
Ranadip Chowdhury and Nita Bhandari
9. Protection, promotion and support to breastfeeding
Arun Gupta and Shoba Suri
10. Optimal neonatal nutrition and care: Early and exclusive breastfeeding and human milk banking support system
Ruchika Chugh Sachdeva and Paramita Kundu
11. Complementary feeding: Programme design framework, implementation and measuring progress
Aashima Garg
12. Infant and young child feeding: Tracking development in policy, community-based program strategy and emerging lessons for future direction in LMICs
Kajali Paintal Goswami
13. Nutrition care in the first year of life: Significance, key experiences and emerging lessons in preventing growth faltering and promoting “catch up” growth
Rupal M. Dalal and Satish B. Agnihotri
14. Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): Community and facility-based management
Praveen Kumar and Shivani Rohatgi
15. Prevention and management of overweight and obesity in children
Anura Kurpad and Sumathi Swaminathan
16. Nutrition care of adolescents: Crucial for optimum growth, development and intergenerational health
Neena Bhatia and Sheila C. Vir
17. Improving women’s nutrition: Critical for breaking the life cycle of malnutrition
Sheila C. Vir
18. Dual nutrition burden in women
Prema Ramachandran
19. Nutrition for the elderly
Seema Puri and Majida Shaheen
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.
