Public Health Nutrition

Catalog description

Restricted to students with junior standing. Student strongly encouraged to have completed NUTR 221N or comparable course before enrolling. This course will examine the role of nutrition in promoting, maintaining and improving health in the community. The course will investigate traditional aspects of the emerging health delivery system, as the financial, legislative, political sociological and scientific aspects of public and community health. Students will identify nutrition programs and policies for various stages of the life cycle and develop skills needed to solve nutrition and health problems in community settings.