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Informationen zum Autor Professor Roger Hughes is based at Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia. Professor Barrie Margetts is based at the University of Southampton, UK. Klappentext Practical Public Health Nutrition ROGER HUGHES AND BARRIE M. MARGETTS Providing the reader with a practice-focussed 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. Exercises in each section of the book contribute to a collective PHN intervention plan, providing the reader with the opportunity to demonstrate an outcome of intervention management. Unique in its approach to teaching the practical applications of this increasinly crucial discipline, Practical Public Health Nutrition is a vital purchase for anyone working in the public health arena. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgements x Glossary xi Part 1 Introduction and context 1 1 The big picture: The context for a textbook on public health nutrition practice 3 Why develop a public health nutrition textbook? 3 Malnutrition is still the main game 3 Innovative solutions are needed 4 Surely you don't mean these challenges can be found in rich countries like mine? 4 Level of influence 5 Practice informed by a public health approach 5 First, work to understand the causes, by looking upstream 5 Practitioners and politics 6 The philosophy underpinning this book 6 Building capacity for effective public health nutrition action 7 2 Defining public health nutrition as a field of practice 9 Introduction 9 Modes of nutrition practice 10 Definitions of public health nutrition 12 An emphasis on the prevention of food and nutrition problems 12 The core functions of the PHN workforce 15 Competencies for PHN practice 17 Professionalism and PHN practice 18 3 A framework for public health nutrition practice 21 Introduction 21 A socio-ecological approach to practice 21 The PHN practice cycle 22 Recognising the importance of capacity building as a discrete strategy and as an approach to practice 23 Why make things more complicated and introduce a new framework? 25 A bi-cyclic framework for public health nutrition practice 28 Part 2 Intelligence 29 4 Step 1: Community engagement and analysis 31 Introduction 33 What is a community? 33 Why Community engagement? 33 Community development constructs 34 Community development - a process or an outcome? 36 Building community capital (and capacity) 37 Building capacity via 'bottom-up' practice 38 Community analysis 40 5 Step 2: Problem analysis 43 Introduction 45 Public health intelligence 45 What is Problem analysis? 46 Types of need 47 Conducting a Problem analysis 47 Different methodological approaches to gather intelligence for problem assessment 51 Applying the intelligence and analysis results 53
