Includes bibliographical references and index.

Assessing nutritional status -- Nutrition surveillance -- Nutrition and infectious disease -- Maternal and child nutrition -- Childhood malnutrition -- Micronutrient deficiencies : iron, iodine, vitamin A, zinc, folate -- The nutritional double burden of disease -- Food security, sustainable food, and agriculture -- Working in the global health environment -- Nutrition in emergencies.

"Nutrition and Global Health began some years ago as a series of short literature reviews. Many of my lectures begin as short literature reviews, written in full, to help to organise my thoughts and identify the key sources and ideas for a given topic. Over time, these notes became too large and detailed to fully cover in a lecture, so when Wiley contacted me, I immediately started work on converting those lecture notes into this textbook. Global health is a vast topic - it is quite literally global. It involves all kinds of clinicians, policymakers, planners, patients and populations"-- Provided by publisher.