This book explores the intersection of nutrition and public health to analyze the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. It details evidence-based strategies, global health challenges, and nutrition-sensitive issues to cover the important aspects of nutrition.

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