Nutrition in Health and Illness

ISBN-13: 9783659227349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 348 str.

Wolde Tsedeke

Opis

Nutrition in health and illness has been offered to medical and health students. The course on nutrition aims to provide students with the comprehensive understanding of nutrition on health and illness issues with particular emphasis to current and emerging nutritional problems of low income countries. The book content in general tries to cover, nutrition and health, diet and diseases (both communicable and non-communicable), dietary guidelines, nutritional requirement at critical periods, nutritional assessment, community based acute malnutrition, the National Nutrition Strategy, Essential Nutrition Actions, food & nutrition security and the different programs and guidelines available in the country. Therefore, this material was compiled to address the needs of both medical and health sciences students of higher education (University).

O autorze

The author was born on July 31, 1986 G.C in Metehara, East shewa Oromyia region of Ethiopia. He obtained his BSc Nurse and MSc in Human Nutrition from the University of Hawassa, Ethiopia. He is currently working as a Lecturer in the Department of Public health, Wollega University, Ethiopia. He has ten publications in peer-reviewed journals.