Community and Public Health Nutrition.

Catalog description

The course provides an understanding of community and public health nutrition as the promotion of health through nutrition and the prevention of nutrition related disease in populations through epidemiology of nutritional disease, environmental scans and development of interventions and policies. Food insecurity and the impact of various nutrient inadequacies and excesses at different stages of the life cycle and their functional outcomes in terms of morbidity, psychological well-being, reproduction and growth will be highlighted. Local, national, and global food production, access, and supply in relation to nutrition, health, and sustainable food systems will be covered in the context of socioeconomic development and current political/economic policies. Prerequisite: Matriculated status in the Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition program or permission by the instructor.