Child Growth and Nutrition in Developing Countries : Priorities for Action / Per Pinstrup-Andersen, David Pelletier, Harold Alderman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alderman, Harold, Editor.

Pelletier, David, Editor.

Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, Editor.

Series:

Food Systems and Agrarian Change Series

Food Systems and Agrarian Change

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.) : 14 drawings, 14 charts/graphs, 22 tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What can be done for the estimated 190 million of the world's children under age five who are chronically undernourished? This book presents a broad, multidisciplinary approach to eliminating child malnutrition in developing countries. Exploring its causes, consequences, and solutions, the volume gives operationally useful information on costeffective ways to reach, hear, and respond to the needs of vast numbers of impoverished families, especially mothers, with diverse cultural values and practices. The focus is on what works in practice, what does not, and why.Nineteen experts offer current knowledge and perspectives from nutrition, public health, epidemiology, agricultural and consumer economics, anthropology, child development, rural sociology, and community development. Combining academic perspectives with practical experience, they spell out ways of implementing simple nutritional/growth-promoting strategies that are financially and technically feasible.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Beyond Child Survival: An Overview of the Issues

2. Promoting Healthy Growth Rationale and Benefits

3. Household Behavior, Preschool Child Health and Nutrition, and the Role of Information

4. Nutrition Education in Developing Countries: An Examination of Recent Successful Projects

5. Growth Monitoring as an Educational Tool, an Integrating Strategy, and a Source of Information: A Review of Experience

6. Child Caregiving and Infant and Preschool Nutrition

7. Improving the Nutrition of Women in the Third World

8. Do Child Survival Interventions Reduce Malnutrition? The Dark Side of Child Survival

9. Water and Sanitation: Health and Nutrition Benefits to Children

10. Family Planning as a Promoter of Child Survival and Growth

11. Feeding Programs and Food-Related Income Transfers

12. Agriculture and Nutrition

13. Community Participation in Food and Nutrition Programs: An Analysis of Recent Governmental Experiences

14. Multisectoral Nutrition Planning: A Synthesis of Experience

15. Information as an Input into Food and Nutrition Policy Formation

16. The Role of Information in Enhancing Child Growth and Improved Nutrition: A Synthesis

17. Enhancing Child Growth and Nutrition Lessons for Action

APPENDIX

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3889-5

OCLC:

1178769725