Community Nutrition / Edition 3

by Nweze Nnakwe

Overview

The third edition of Community Nutrition: Planning Health Promotion and Disease Prevention provides students and professionals with the knowledge, skills, tools, and evidence-based approaches they need to effectively promote health and prevent disease. Reflecting the latest direction in public health and community nutrition, it considers the comprehensive approach taken by practitioners providing community-based services that emphasize primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Divided into three parts, Community Nutrition provides an overview of the public health nutrition landscape, addresses nutrition interventions for vulnerable populations, and explores how to deliver successful nutrition services. Given its extensive coverage and inclusion of engaging pedagogical features, this text is an essential resource for community nutrition courses and a useful reference tool. Key Features: - Includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access complete with interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, learning analytics reporting tools, and more - Reflects the latest research, guidelines, and policy developments in community and public health nutrition - Features Successful Community Strategies boxes that discuss recent effective intervention programs and provide examples of research-based best practices - Includes Case Studies that provide students with the opportunity to apply what they have learned in each chapter - Incorporates Think About It questions that emphasize active learning

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781284108323
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	09/01/2017
Edition description:	3
Pages:	582
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Nweze Nnakwe received her Ph.D in metabolic nutrition from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is a full Professor of nutrition at Illinois State University and an adjunct Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University School of Nursing and Mennonite College of Nursing, teaching nutrition courses for over 20 years. She has taught several nutrition courses including Advanced Nutrition, Community Nutrition, Food Science, and Medical Nutrition Therapy. She is a full member of the Graduate Faculty. She is a registered and licensed dietitian, and Certified in American Family & Consumer Sciences. She is also a Women’s Health Issue s Educator. She has appeared on CNN Headline News-local edition to discuss women’s health Issue s.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Overview of the Public Health Nutrition Landscape
Chapter 1 Community Nutrition and Public Health
Chapter 2 Nutrition Screening and Assessment
Chapter 3 Nutritional Epidemiology and Research Methods
Chapter 4 U.S. Nutrition Monitoring and Food Assistance Programs
Chapter 5 Cultural Influences and Public Health Nutrition
Chapter 6 Public Policy and Nutrition
Chapter 7 Public Health Nutrition: An International Perspective
Part 2 Nutrition Interventions for Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 8 Nutrition During Pregnancy and Infancy
Chapter 9 Nutrition in Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 10 Adulthood: Special Health Issue s
Chapter 11 Promoting Health and Preventing Disease in Older Persons
Part 3 Delivering Successful Nutrition Services
Chapter 12 Principles of Planning Effective Community Nutrition Programs
Chapter 13 Theories and Models for Health Promotion and Changing Nutrition Behavior
Chapter 14 Acquiring Grantsmanship Skills
Chapter 15 Ethics and Nutrition Practice
Chapter 16 Principles of Nutrition Education
Chapter 17 Marketing Nutrition Programs and the Role of Food Industry in Food Choice
Chapter 18 Private and Government Healthcare Systems

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Amy Hess Fischl, MS RDN LDN BC-ADM CDCES(University of Chicago Medical Center)
Description: While this book stays true to form, focusing on the basics of community nutrition and the evidence-based approaches to promote health and prevent disease, this update to the 2012 edition includes the most recent research and recommendations. Although this edition also includes access to an online version, at the time of review, it was unavailable due to some ongoing updates to the site.
Purpose: The purpose continues to be to reinforce the core nutrition concepts and provide readers with the tools and skills needed to promote health in the community setting. With the growing need for, and availability of, healthcare professionals and lay health workers working more in the community, this book is important as an initial learning tool and as an ongoing reference.
Audience: The audience is primarily nutrition students, community nurses, and health educators, but the book can be a useful reference for all healthcare professionals who work in any health setting.
Features: The organization of the book remains the same as previous editions. It is still divided into three parts: the first is an overview of community and public health nutrition along with descriptions of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. The chapters have been updated to include Healthy People 2020 focus areas, along with updated poverty guidelines and different costs of food plans. The second part focuses on the knowledge and intervention skills needed to promote health and prevent disease throughout the lifecycle. These chapters were updated with the Healthy People 2020 Objectives for Maternal and Infant Health, Children and Adolescents and Adults. The third part covers the skills and tools needed to design effective health promotion programs. Each chapter includes learning objectives, textboxes highlighting important topics, successful community strategies that emphasize effective intervention programs, a summary, and critical thinking activities to help readers apply the information they have just read. In the chapter on cultural influences and public health nutrition, the critical thinking activity focuses on a community nutritionist conducting diabetes and dietary screenings in a free clinic with a diverse population and the reasons behind the lack of population compliance with a prescribed diet. This activity really makes readers focus on cultural sensitivity, the differences in cooking methods, food options, and food storage that are all equally important to identify in order to successfully work with cultures other than our own.
Assessment: This edition continues to be an excellent choice for students and healthcare professionals alike. This update is certainly needed with the influx of new guidelines and recommendations.

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