Practical public health nutrition
By: Roger Hughes and Barrie Margetts
Contributors: Margetts, Barrie M.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781444329216; 9781405183604; 9781283869065
Subjects: Nutrition; HEALTH & FITNESS; Nutrition Policy; Nutrition policy; Health Promotion; Diets; Social Science; Public health; Food Content Guides; Public Health Practice; Health; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; MEDICAL; Nursing
Description: Providing the reader with a practice-focused approach to public health nutrition intervention management, Practical Public Health Nutrition is a crucial resource for dietitians, community and public health nutritionists, and related health professionals in need of a practical guide to practicing public health nutrition. Internationally recognised experts Hughes and Margetts describe in detail the rationale, processes, and tools that can be used to assess population needs, analyse problems, and develop effective interventions at a community level.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The big picture : the context for a handbook on public health nutrition practice; title: Defining public health nutrition as a field of practice; title: A framework for public health nutrition practice; title: Step 1 : community engagement and analysis; title: Step 2 : problem analysis; title: Step 3 : stakeholder analysis and engagement; title: Step 4 : determinant analysis; title: Step 5 : capacity analysis; title: Step 6 : mandates for public health nutrition action; title: Step 7 : intervention research and strategy options; title: Step 8 : risk assessment and strategy prioritisation; title: Step 9 : writing action statements; title: Step 10 : logic modelling; title: Step 11 : implementation and evaluation planning; title: Step 12 : managing implementation; title: Step 13 : process evaluation; title: Step 14 : impact and outcome evaluation; title: Step 15 : evaluating capacity gains; title: Step 16 : economic evaluation; title: Step 17 : reflective practice and valorisation.