Public Health Nutrition

Define Public Health

What are the two approaches to public health?

Describe the narrow approach to public health

Describe the broad approach to public health

What is Public Health Nutrition?

What term is given to the study of a disease-cause relationship?

Nutritional epidemiology aims to do what in terms of diseases?

Why does some Public Health Nutrition information change over time?

List a few factors that may cause uncertainty when determining the relationship between an exposure and an outcome

What term is used to describe the main Public Health intervention?

Describe what actions may be used in Health Promotion

Identify some common examples of Health Promotion in the UK

What two common approaches are used to increase intakes of specific nutrients within a population?

What type of approach is supplementation and what are the limits?

What type of approach is fortification and what are the benefits?

Give an example of a condition that requires the intervention by a Public Health Nutritionist

What key Publich Health Nutrition problems are there in developed countries (e.g. UK), transition countries (e.g. India) and developing countries (e.g. Sub-Saharan Africa)?

List some successes of Public Health Nutrition in the UK

Explain how PHN intervened to eliminate ricketts

List some benefits of wartime rationing and describe some of the impacts that resulted from it