Global Nutrition

Catalog description

This course is designed to examine the nature and scope of major nutritional issues and problems throughout the world, with an emphasis on developing countries. It includes consideration of specific nutrient deficiencies, as well as nutrition-related aspects of infectious and chronic disease. The role of food availability, food supply & distribution and world food production and drivers of nutrition and health will be discussed in the context of socioeconomic development and current economic policies and realities.