Research Catalog

Title

The ecology of malnutrition in the Caribbean : the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, the Lesser Antilles, and Trinidad and Tobago / by Jacques M. May and Donna L. McLellan.

Author

May, Jacques M. (Jacques Meyer), 1896-1975

Publication

New York : Hafner Press, 1973.

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Details

Additional Authors

McLellan, Donna L.

Description

viii, 490 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Studies in medical geography, 0585-6906 ; v. 12
• May, Jacques M. (Jacques Meyer), 1896-1975. Studies in medical geography ; v. 12.

Subject

• Food supply > Caribbean Area
• Diet > Caribbean Area
• Malnutrition > Caribbean Area
• Food supply
• Food Supply
• Nutrition Disorders > epidemiology
• Nutrition Surveys
• Diet
• Malnutrition
• Unterernährung
• Central America > epidemiology
• Caribbean Area
• Westindien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Frontispiece: The nutritional niche -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Conversion Tables -- The Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands -- I. Background Information -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- IV. Adequacy of Food Resources -- V. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- The Republic of Cuba -- I. Introduction -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- IV. Adequacy of Food Resources -- V. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- VI. Conclusions -- Jamaica -- I. Background Information -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- IV. Adequacy of Food Resources -- V. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- VI. Conclusions -- The Island of Hispaniola -- The Republic of Haiti -- I. Background Information -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- IV. Adequacy of Food Resources -- V. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- VI. Conclusions -- The Dominican Republic -- I. Background Information -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- IV. Adequacy of Food Resources -- V. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- VI. Conclusions -- ^The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico -- I. Background Information -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- IV. Adequacy of Food Resources -- V. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- VI. Conclusions -- The Lesser Antilles -- Barbados -- I. Background Information -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- A. General -- B. Special Diets -- C. Levels of Nutrition -- IV. Adequacy of Food Resources -- V. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- VI. Conclusions -- The Leeward Islands -- St.Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla -- Antigua -- Montserrat -- The British Virgin Islands -- I. Background Information -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- IV. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- V. Conclusions -- The Windward Islands -- Guadeloupe and Martinique -- Dominica -- St.Lucia -- St.Vincent -- Grenada -- I. Backgound Information -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- IV. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- V. Conclusions -- Trinidad and Tobago -- I. Background Information -- II. Food Resources -- III. Diets -- ^IV. Adequacy of Food Resources -- V. Nutritional Disease Patterns -- VI. Conclusions.

ISBN

• 9780028489209
• 0028489209
• 002848920X (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 73076140
• SPKT748997

OCLC

• ocm00744393
• 744393
• SCSB-156993

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library