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Child growth and nutrition in developing countries : priorities for action / edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, David Pelletier, Harold Alderman.
- Title
- Child growth and nutrition in developing countries : priorities for action / edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, David Pelletier, Harold Alderman.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [1995], ©1995.
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- Description
- viii, 447 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- 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 causes, consequences, and solutions, the volume gives operationally useful information on cost-effective 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 in fact works, 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." "Technology can and does play an important role, the authors believe, but it has proved to be ineffective, by itself, in addressing protein-energy malnutrition. The volume concludes that effective and sustainable solutions to malnutrition must be found through careful analysis of the behavior of individuals, households, and communities - preferably with community involvement in the analysis - to identify the ways in which community-based or external interventions can be designed or redesigned to improve nutrition."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Food systems and agrarian change
- Uniform Title
- Food systems and agrarian change.
- Subject
- Note
- "Revised August 1993"--CIP t.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-434) and index.
- Contents
- Preface / Joyce Lewinger Moock -- 1. Beyond Child Survival: An Overview of the Issues / Per Pinstrup-Andersen, David Pelletier and Harold Alderman -- 2. Promoting Healthy Growth: Rationale and Benefits / Reynaldo Martorell -- 3. Household Behavior, Preschool Child Health and Nutrition, and the Role of Information / Jere R. Behrman -- 4. Nutrition Education in Developing Countries: An Examination of Recent Successful Projects / Maria Teresa Cerqueira and Christine M. Olson -- 5. Growth Monitoring as an Educational Tool, an Integrating Strategy, and a Source of Information: A Review of Experience / Marie T. Ruel -- 6. Child Caregiving and Infant and Preschool Nutrition / Patrice L. Engle -- 7. Improving the Nutrition of Women in the Third World / Joanne Leslie -- 8. Do Child Survival Interventions Reduce Malnutrition? The Dark Side of Child Survival / Sandra L. Huffman and Adwoa Steel -- 9. Water and Sanitation: Health and Nutrition Benefits to Children / Susan E. Burger and Steven A. Esrey -- 10. Family Planning as a Promoter of Child Survival and Growth / John G. Haaga -- 11. Feeding Programs and Food-Related Income Transfers / Beatrice Lorge Rogers -- 12. Agriculture and Nutrition / Saba Mebrahtu, David Pelletier and Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- 13. Community Participation in Food and Nutrition Programs: An Analysis of Recent Governmental Experiences / Roger Shrimpton -- 14. Multisectoral Nutrition Planning: A Synthesis of Experience / F. James Levinson -- 15. Information as an Input into Food and Nutrition Policy Formation / Harold Alderman -- 16. The Role of Information in Enhancing Child Growth and Improved Nutrition: A Synthesis / David Pelletier -- 17. Enhancing Child Growth and Nutrition: Lessons for Action / Per Pinstrup-Andersen, David Pelletier and Harold Alderman.
- ISBN
- 0801430011 (alk. paper)
- 0801481899 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94031497
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries