Public Health Nutrition: A Comprehensive Textbook for Graduate and Undergraduate Students

By M. Margaret Barth PhD, Ronny Bell PhD, and Karen Grimmer PhD, this practice-based textbook is designed for graduate and upper undergraduate students, as well as community nutrition and public health professionals. The book provides a principal understanding of how improving access to healthy foods at individual, local, regional, and global levels can improve community health and combat noncommunicable diseases, infectious diseases, hunger, and malnutrition, obesity, social injustice, and debilitating food environments.

Addressing Public Health Nutrition Challenges

This comprehensive textbook not only directs readers’ attention towards key public health nutrition-related challenges that affect rural and urban populations across the globe but 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
• How to address cultural competency, nutritional monitoring, professional development, and many other practice-based skills out in the field

Essential Features for Public Health Students

All chapters are complete with:

• Learning objectives
• Detailed case studies
• Discussion questions
• Learning activities for beyond the classroom
• A review of core topics covered

This textbook is essential for public health students studying nutrition, public policy, social work, and other health science-related areas, presenting a strategic context to real-world initiatives while employing an interprofessional outlook to tackle public health nutrition issues.

Key Features and Benefits

This textbook:

• 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
• Covers 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

Each chapter includes case studies, suggested learning activities, reflection questions, an extensive glossary, and more.

A full range of instructor ancillaries is available, 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.

Product Details:

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• 1st edition (June 25, 2020)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 502 pages
• ISBN-10: 0826146848
• ISBN-13: 978-0826146847