Infant and Child Nutrition Worldwide

Issues and Perspectives

By: Frank Falkner

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Hardcover | 2 October 1991 | Edition Number 1

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326 Pages

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This volume provides a contemporary and historical overview of infant nutrition in Europe, North America, and the Third World. It emphasizes the important role that good nutrition, appropriate health care, and a caring environment play in promoting healthy physical and social growth in children. Issues covered include breast feeding, maternal undernutrition and reproductive performance, weaning, and the social and pyschological factors of breast feeding. The book will serve as an excellent guide for nutritionists, pediatricians, health professionals and others involved in child welfare worldwide.

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Parenting: Advice & Issues Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Care Fitness & Diet Diets & Dieting, Nutrition Medicine Medicine in General Public Health & Preventive Medicine Personal & Public Health / Health Education Dietetics & Nutrition Clinical & Internal Medicine

Paediatric Medicine Health Systems & Services

Preface
Foreword
Contributors
Breast Feeding Practices During Industrialisation 1800-1919
The Geographic Distribution of Malnutrition
Maternal Undernutrition and Reproductive Performance
Breast-Feeding: An International and Historical Review
Science and Lactation
Contemporary Feeding Practices in Infancy and Early Childhood in Developing Countries
Social and Psychological Factors in Breast-Feeding
Weaning: Why, When and What?
Development in Infant Nutrition
The Infant Food Industry as a Partner in Health
Direct Intervention Programmes to Improve Infant and Child Nutrition
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