Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries: Volume II

The last decade has witnessed continuous development in the field of public health nutrition, especially in terms of a shift from ’what’ to ＂how＂.

This book explores the intersection of nutrition and public health to analyze the impact of dietary choices on communities and individuals. It includes chapters detailing important concepts such as food-agriculture, food systems, dietary diversity, food fortification, water-sanitation, and conditional and non-conditional cash, which are essential in keeping the readers updated with the recent information and critical for developing an understanding of public health. The subject matter of this book includes:

• Universal Salt Iodization (USI) and Double Fortified Salt
• Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in young children
• Leveraging agriculture for nutrition
• Nutrition-sensitive food systems
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

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Sheila Chander Vir is senior Public Health Nutrition consultant and the Founder Director of Public Health Nutrition and Development Centre, New Delhi, India. She completed MSc (Foods and Nutrition) from Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India and PhD from the Institute of Clinical Sciences, Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom. She was also Programme Officer (Nutrition) with UNICEF (India) where she provided strategic and technical leadership for policy formulation and implementation of nutrition programmes in India and the state of Uttar Pradesh.