Epidemiological insights on malnutrition: Some resurrected, others restructured, a few retired
1978
Gordon, John E.
Extract: Nutritional epidemiology is becoming a general scientific discipline, widely purposed and incorporating objectives beyond public health: measures concerned with social welfare, economic growth, political stability, and behavioral compatibility with fellow humans and other living things. Specifically, nutritional epidemiology comprises a branch of knowledge utilizing human ecology to solve problems in three broad dimensions--a defined causality, a prescribed intervention and an evaluation of results, concurrently made and terminally. The groundwork is medical ecology; the approach is holistic. A population of pregnant mothers and their newborn children is accorded first priority among field of interest, past any single disease entity or technical method of control. Community programs enlarge from that base.
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