Food and public health : a practical introduction /

"A new introduction to public health's most elemental topic Food is baked in to most things that public health is and does. But for a field charged with carrying torches as divergent as anti-hunger and anti-obesity, it's unlikely, even impossible, to shape a unified approach to comple...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Food and public health (Karpyn : Online)
Other Authors: Karpyn, Allison
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The history of food and public health / Emily Contois and Anastasia Day
  • History and development of the 2015-2020 dietary guidelines for Americans / Alice H. Lichtenstein and Allison Karpyn
  • Behavioral design as an emerging theory for dietary behavior change / NCCOR Behavioral Design Working Group
  • Health disparities : race, ethnicity, gender and class / Alison G.M. Brown and Sara C. Folta
  • Healthy food marketing / Allison Karpyn
  • Policy efforts supporting healthy diets for adults and children / Courtney A. Pinard, Eric E. Calloway, Teresa M. Smith, Amy L. Yaroh
  • Food insecurity and public health / Molly Knowles, Joanna Simmons, Mariana Chilton
  • Obesogenic environments and public health mitigation strategies / Allison Karpyn
  • Food controversies : the healthy pulse of a democracy? / F. Bailey Norwood
  • The obesity pandemic & food insecurity in developing countries : a case study from the Caribbean / Kristen Lowitt, Katherine Gray-Donald, Gordon M. Hickey, Arlette Saint Ville, Isabella Francis-Granderson, Chandra A. Madramootoo, and Leroy Phillip
  • Intersections of food and culture : case studies of sugar and meat from Australia, Japan, Thailand, and Nigeria / Wakako Takeda, Cathy Banwell, Kelebogile T. Setiloane, and Melissa K. Melby
  • From soil to stomach : agritourism and public health / Erecia Hepburn and Allison Karpyn.