Public Health Nutrition

Catalog description

This introductory course in public health nutrition is intended for graduate-level students of medicine or public health and provides foundational theoretical and practical knowledge and skills. This course is one of the core components of the public health graduate program and is appropriate for any students intending to fulfill degree requirements. It is also appropriate as an elective for students of medicine or other related fields. This course analyzes major nutritional deficiencies and other emerging nutrition related disorders, their prevention and control. It also deals on the national and international nutrition policies and regulatory guidelines. Furthermore, intervention strategies for nutrition problems or issues and current food nutrition issues and their implications to public health will be studied.