Diets, Malnutrition, and Disease The Indian Experience |
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| Editor:
| Gaiha, Raghav
Jha, Raghbendra
Kulkarni, Vani S. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-809921-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2014 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press India
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $73.59AUD $80.95 |
Book Description:
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This book is a comprehensive analysis of malnutrition, meticulous exploration of dietary transition, poverty nutrition traps, links between multiple anthropometric failures among children and their vulnerability to infectious diseases, abysmal performance of the Public Distribution System and a critique of its conversion into a universal food subsidy, the links between affluence, obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and the health policy challenge of a "double burden of...
More DescriptionThis book is a comprehensive analysis of malnutrition, meticulous exploration of dietary transition, poverty nutrition traps, links between multiple anthropometric failures among children and their vulnerability to infectious diseases, abysmal performance of the Public Distribution System and a critique of its conversion into a universal food subsidy, the links between affluence, obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and the health policy challenge of a "double burden of disease" of high communicable disease mortality and a growing burden of NCD mortality.