Public Health Nutrition: Rural, Urban, and Global Community-Based Practice - Paperback
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Public Health Nutrition is a comprehensive, practice-based textbook for graduate and upper undergraduate students and community nutrition and public health professionals. It provides readers with the principal understanding of how improving access to healthy foods at individual, local, regional and global levels as well as improving food security and sustainability can improve community health and combat noncommunicable diseases, infectious diseases, hunger and malnutrition, obesity, social injustice, and debilitating food environments. Across diverse communities, this book not only directs readers' attention towards key public health nutrition-related challenges that affect rural and urban populations across the globe, it also adds critical thinking exercises, cases, and engaging discussion topics to advance application of evidence-based practice in the real world.
Using an interprofessional approach and supported with evidence-based research in public health, nutritional science, and behavioral economics, this textbook covers how to plan health promotion programs and interventions in diverse communities, how to analyze and influence food policy, sustainability, and security initiatives, and how to address cultural competency, nutritional monitoring, professional development, and many other practice-based skills out in the field.. All chapters are complete with learning objectives, detailed case studies, discussion questions, learning activities for beyond the classroom, and a review of core topics covered. Essential for public health students studying nutrition, public policy, social work, and other health science-related areas, the book presents a strategic context to real-world initiatives while employing an interprofessional outlook to tackle public health nutrition issues.
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Key Features
- Addresses key public health nutrition-related challenges in working with rural, urban, global, and culturally and geographically diverse communities to improve outcomes
- Utilizes interprofessional and evidence-based approaches to food and water systems, food security, and food sovereignty
- Includes coverage of important trends, such as telehealth, mHealth, collaborative grantsmanship, and innovative communication strategies
- Highlights the aims of Healthy People 2030, Feed the Future, and Sustainability Development Goals
- Fosters skills and builds competencies related to community health needs assessment, problem-solving and critical thinking, systems thinking, evidence-based public health practice, and leadership
- Features case studies, suggested learning activities, reflection questions, an extensive glossary, and more in all chapters
- Includes a full range of instructor ancillaries including an Instructor's Manual, PowerPoints, Test Bank, Image Bank, and Syllabus
- Purchase includes access to the ebook for use on most mobile devices or computers
M. Margaret Barth, PhD, MPH serves as Professor and Chair of Nutrition and Health Care Management at Appalachian State University. Dr. Barth received her PhD in Nutrition and Food Science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MPH from University of Illinois, Chicago; MBA from The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; and B.S. in Nutrition and Medical Dietetics from University of Illinois, Chicago. Dr. Barth has served in leadership roles in academia and food organizations in areas of nutrition, food systems and sustainability and developed research and service learning projects in the US, Mexico, South America, Philippines, and China. Publications include authorship of more than 50 scientific research papers along with invited review articles, book chapters, and government references on nutritional quality, public health nutrition, food safety, and community food systems. Recipient of the highest alumni award from the University of Illinois, College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences in 2014. In addition to professional activities in APHA, WPHNA and ASPHN organizations, she serves as an advisor to nonprofit organizations.
Grimmer, Karen: -Karen Grimmer, PhD is a Senior Researcher in Clinical Education and Training in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University in South Australia and Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. She served there as the scientific lead on Project SAGE (South African Guidelines Excellence), a Flagship grant from the South African Medical Research Council designing and testing new ways of producing and translating evidence effectively into primary care settings in South Africa. Dr. Grimmer is the former inaugural director of the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence (iCAHE), UniSA. She has been publishing peer-reviewed scientific articles since 1989 and has authored and co-authored more than 350 papers to date. Dr. Grimmer has published eight invited book chapters, conceptualized and edited two niche textbooks on evidence-based practice and clinical guidelines, and presented hundreds of conference presentations. She has established long term, valued and formal linkages with research institutions in South Africa, Tokyo, Manila, Hong Kong, California and North Carolina. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Allied Health in 2014 at the 10th Allied Health Conference in Malaysia. She has established The Sihlalo Outreach mission to create advantage out of disadvantage for young people through personal, societal and professional training opportunities in Cape Town, South Africa.
Bell, Ronny: -Ronny A. Bell, PhD is a Professor with Tenure and Chair of the Department of Public Health in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU). Prior to his appointment at ECU, Dr. Bell was Professor of Public Health Sciences and Director of the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Dr. Bell received his undergraduate degree in Public Health Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his master's and Doctorate in Foods and Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Gerontology and a master's in Epidemiology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Dr. Bell's research focuses on chronic disease epidemiology and prevention in racial and ethnic minority populations with a focus on American Indian populations. He currently chairs the North Carolina Diabetes Advisory Council and the North Carolina American Indian Health Board and co-chairs the Healthy North Carolina 2030 Task Force. Nationally, he currently serves on the American Diabetes Association Health Disparities Committee.
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