"Over the years, Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects. The ""Practical Health Guides"" draw on this experience to put forward ideas on best practice in the provision of health care and services in developing countries. A comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations, this book is an important reference for emergency planners and field-workers.
The first part describes the assessment and monitoring of nutritional needs; part two gives detailed directions for the setting up and administration of selective and therapeutic feeding programmes, and appendices provide useful checklists and tables."
By:
Tim Lusty, Pat Diskett Imprint: Oxfam Professional Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: No. 1 Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Spine: 7mm
Weight: 200g ISBN:9780855980979 ISBN 10: 0855980974 Series:Practical Health Guides Pages: 96 Publication Date:15 December 1984 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Part One: Assessments and Surveys Chapter 1: Malnutrition: definitions and descriptions Chapter 2: Anthropometric measurements Chapter 3: Assessment and information gathering Chapter 4: Surveys and interpreting and using results Part Two: Selective Feeding Programmes Chapter 5: Feeding programmes Chapter 6: Supplementary Feeding Programmes Chapter 7: Therapeutic Feeding Programmes Chapter 8: Health care and vitamin deficiencies Chapter 9: Training of Community Health Workers in nutrition Chapter 10: Reporting/Monitoring and Evaluation of Programmes Part Three: Appendices 1.Checklist 2.Weight/height tables 3.Contents of Oxfam Feeding Kits and other resources 4.Standard food tables and nutritional requirements 5.Recipes 6.Directions for construction of length board, height stick and height arch for measuring children 7.Further reading.