Public Health Nutrition
Public Health Nutrition has established itself as a major branch of nutrition which draws on the science of nutriton, of epidemiology and public health to help deal at populationlevel with major nutritional issues. At present there is no recognised single textbook in this area and it is the Society's wish that this text will become the standard text for such courses. Whereas the text on Nutrition and Metabolism will cover for example the mechanisms whereby nutrient imbalance will contribute to chronic disease, this text will deal with the broad principles of assessment of risk at individual and population levels, the planning and evaluation of intervention strategies, the principles of health promotion and the assessment of the impact of intervention strategies.