Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries

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.

Foreword

Preface

List of Contributors

1. Investing in nutrition: Central to sustainable development

2. Principles of epidemiology and epidemiological methods

3. Nutrition epidemiology for developing countries

4. Measuring undernutrition and overnutrition in children

5. Undernutrition in children: Significance, current situation, determinants, programme principles and intervention package

6. Essential newborn health and nutrition care: Emerging and evolving interventions and program scenario: Global and India

7. Nutrition care of term, preterm and sick newborns

8. Optimal infant and young child feeding

9. Protection, promotion and support to breastfeeding

10. Optimal neonatal nutrition and care: Early and exclusive breastfeeding and human milk banking support system

11. Complementary feeding: Programme design framework, implementation and measuring progress

12. Infant and young child feeding: Tracking development in policy, community-based program strategy and emerging lessons for future direction in LMICs

13. Nutrition care in the first year of life: Significance, key experiences and emerging lessons in preventing growth faltering and promoting “catch up” growth

14. Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): Community and facility-based management

15. Prevention and management of overweight and obesity in children

16. Nutrition care of adolescents: Crucial for optimum growth, development and intergenerational health

17. Improving women’s nutrition: Critical for breaking the life cycle of malnutrition

18. Dual nutrition burden in women

19. Nutrition for the elderly

20. Malnutrition and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

21 Metabolism of iron, folic acid and vitamin B12

22. Nutritional anaemia during critical life periods: Pregnancy, early childhood and adolescence

23. Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young children

24. Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in adolescent girls

25. Vitamin A deficiency: Prevention and control

26. National iodine deficiency disorders control programme, India

27. Universal Salt Iodization (USI) and Double Fortified Salt: Iron and Iodine (DFS)

28. Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) Control Program: Sustaining Progress Imperative

29. Food fortification to address micronutrient deficiencies

30. Fortification of Wheat Flour (FWF) with iron, folic Acid and B12

31. Leveraging agriculture for nutrition

32. Nutrition-sensitive food systems: Experience and current scenario in developing countries

33. Dietary diversity: Significance, determinants, interventions and diversity measures

34. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): A nutrition-sensitive intervention

35. Cash Transfer (CT) programmes and maternal, infant and young child nutrition: Experiences of low and middle-income countries

36. Developing social and behaviour change programs for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) at scale

37. Planning and implementation of public health nutrition programs: Principles and practice

38. Monitoring and evaluation: Public health nutrition programmes

39. Research methods in public health and nutrition

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