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This book contains 7 chapters. The following topics are discussed: case for school health and nutrition; challenges for child health and nutrition (infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies); health, nutrition and access to education; long-term effects of preschool health and nutrition on educational achievement; health, nutrition and educational achievement of school age children; costs and benefits of school health and nutrition interventions; and school health and nutrition programmes.
A fully revised edition of the classic textbook for students and medical practitioners in Africa.
"Distributed by World Scientific Publishing, Hackensack, NJ."
"School feeding is the world's most extensive safety net, with nearly one in two primary school children receiving a subsidized meal every school day. Over the last decade the coverage has doubled in Africa to 65.9 million school children, with the fastest rate of growth in Nigeria, up from 1.05 million in 2017 to 9.9 million in 2022. Nigeria has created the largest school meals program south of the Sahara by designing-in four key principles: transparency and accountability; equity; diet quality and sustainability; and growing the local economy. The programme has created 106,000 jobs, mainly for women, and provides over 200,000 local farmers with a reliable, weekly market for food, including...
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School feeding is the world's most extensive safety net, with nearly one in two primary school children receiving a subsidized meal every school day. Over the last decade the coverage has doubled in Africa to 65.9 million school children, with the fastest rate of growth in Nigeria, up from 1.05 million in 2017 to 9.9 million in 2022.Nigeria has created the largest school meals program south of the Sahara by designing-in four key principles: transparency and accountability; equity; diet quality and sustainability; and growing the local economy. The programme has created 106,000 jobs, mainly for women, and provides over 200,000 local farmers with a reliable, weekly market for food, including 7...
From the dynamics of interpersonal communication between health professionals and clients to global command-and-control during public health emergencies that cross international borders, the field of health communication bridges many disciplines and involves efforts from the micro to the macro. It involves navigating personal, cultural, and political complexities and an ability to distill complex technical science into quickly and easily understood terms for ready distribution by the mass media--or to an individual patient or to the parent of an ailing child. Despite an abundance of textbooks, specialized monographs, and academic handbooks, this is the first encyclopedic reference work in th...
How can a public health approach advance efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to child trafficking? Child trafficking is widely recognized as one of the critical issues of our day, prompting calls to action at the global, national, and local levels. Yet it is unclear whether the strategies and tools used to counter this exploitation—most of which involve law enforcement and social services—have actually reduced the prevalence of trafficking. In Preventing Child Trafficking, Jonathan Todres and Angela Diaz explore how the public health field can play a comprehensive, integrated role in preventing, identifying, and responding to child trafficking. Describing the depth and breadth of t...