Research Catalog

Title

Malnourished people : a policy view / Alan Berg.

Author

Berg, Alan, 1932-

Publication

Washington, D.C. (1818 H St., N.W., Washington 20433) : World Bank, [1981]

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Details

Additional Authors

World Bank.

Description

108 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Abstract: Economic and political aspects of dealing with world malnutrition are delineated and discussed for food andnutrition policy planners. Topics include the need for nutrition policy actions; the consequences of inadequate nutritional intake and its associated costs (in hindering mental development, disease resistance, infant development, and national development); short-term effects of inhibiting the growth process; potential strategies and their costs; new, promising intervention approaches based on nutrition-oriented food policies; and methods for implementing such approaches. Data on a commodity-specific orientation to nutrition-related food policy, the mortality effects of caloric deficiency, the effects of nutrition policy efforts, the costs of nutrition programs, and on dietary standards, are appended. Tabular data on selected countries are presented throughout the text. (wz).

Series Statement

Poverty and basic needs series

Uniform Title

Poverty and basic needs series

Subject

• Nutrition policy > Developing countries
• Malnutrition > Prevention
• Deficiency Diseases > prevention & control
• Nutrition policy
• Unterernährung
• Ondervoeding
• Politiek
• Economische aspecten
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer

Note

• "June 1981."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

LCCN

81211631

OCLC

• ocm08280498
• 8280498
• SCSB-43626

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library