Gebundenes Buch

Diets, Malnutrition, and Disease

The Indian Experience

Herausgeber: Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S; Jha, Raghbendra

Beschreibung

This book is a comprehensive analysis of malnutrition, meticulous exploration of dietary transition, poverty nutrition traps, links between multiple anthropometric failures among children and their vulnerability to infectious diseases, abysmal performance of the Public Distribution System and a critique of its conversion into a universal food subsidy, the links between affluence, obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and the health policy challenge of a "double burden of disease" of high communicable disease mortality and a growing burden of NCD mortality.

Autor

Raghav Gaiha is Visiting Fellow in Economics, Australian National University. Raghbendra Jha is Rajiv Gandhi Chair Professor and Executive Director, Australia South Asia Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia. Vani S. Kulkarni is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Urban Ethnography Project at Yale University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780198099215
• ISBN-10: 0198099215
• Artikelnr.: 47867285