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In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
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
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