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Community Nutrition: Planning Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Author(s): Nweze Nnakwe, PhD, RD, LD, Illinois State University
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763747602
  • ISBN-10:0763747602
  • Paperback    408 pages      © 2009
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Overview

Community Nutrition: Planning Health Promotion and Disease Prevention uses real-world examples to reinforce core nutrition concepts and explores the current and emerging nutrition issues faced by today’s diverse communities. It presents the skills, cultural concepts, and background knowledge to promote health and prevent disease.

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Successful Community Strategy: Highlights effective community-based programs and provides examples of best research-based practice for each chapter.

Critical Thinking Activity: Helps students develop and master a variety of cognitive skills such as synthesizing, analyzing, applying, and evaluating information.  These activities provide the students with an opportunity to understand and evaluate health information and then apply the concepts in the school and community settings.

Case Study: Provides the students the opportunity to apply what they have learned in each chapter. These case studies highlight real-life community issues involving nutrition and how college students deal with them. Corresponding activities are also included so students can learn to address and alleviate problems.

Learning Objectives:  Each objective emphasizes key concepts to assist in student retention.

Chapter Summary: Reviews important concepts for each chapter and provides a study aid for students

Web Quest: Offers students a list of online resources for further learning or investigation.

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Part I – Overview of the Public Health Nutrition Landscape

Chapter 1: Community Nutrition and Public Health

Chapter 2: Nutrition Screening and Assessment

Chapter 3: Nutrition Epidemiology and Research Methods

Chapter 4: U.S. Nutrition Monitoring and Food Assistance Programs

Chapter 5: Private and Government Healthcare Systems

Chapter 6: Public Policy and Nutrition

Chapter 7: Public Health Nutrition An International Perspective

Part II - Nutrition Interventions for Vulnerable Population

Chapter 8: Nutrition During Pregnancy and Infancy

Chapter 9: Nutrition in Childhood and Adolescence

Chapter 10: Adulthood: Special Health Issues

Chapter 11: Promoting Health and Preventing Disease in Older Persons

Part III - Delivering Successful Nutrition Services

Chapter 12: Principles of Planning Effective Community Nutrition Programs

Chapter 13: Grantsmanship Skills and Nutrition and Ethics

Chapter 14: Principles of Nutrition Education

Chapter 15: Marketing Nutrition Programs and the Role of Food Industry on Food Choice

Chapter 16: Cultural Influences and Public Health Nutrition


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Nweze Nnakwe, PhD, RD, LD-Illinois State University

Nweze Nnakwe received her Ph.D in metabolic nutrition from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is a full Professor of nutrition at Illinois State University and an adjunct Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University School of Nursing and Mennonite College of Nursing, teaching nutrition courses for over 20 years. She has taught several nutrition courses including Advanced Nutrition, Community Nutrition, Food Science, and Medical Nutrition Therapy. She is a full member of the Graduate Faculty. She is a registered and licensed dietitian, and Certified in American Family & Consumer Sciences. She is also a Women’s Health Issues Educator. She has appeared on CNN Headline News-local edition to discuss women’s health Issues.

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  • Community Nutrition
  • Public Health Community Nutrition Programs

Appropriate for undergraduate courses

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