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Osmani S.R

Nutrition and poverty - New Delhi Oxford University Press 1992 - 366p. - Oxford India Paperbacks .

ISBN: 019-565218-5

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Malnutrition
Social aspects
Nutrition surveys
Undernutrition - measurement and implications : Biology of undernutrition, height as indicator of nutritional status
Assessing undernutrition- need for a reconceptualization : Current approaches to measuring undernutrition, adjustments, adaptations and failures
Undernutrition- concepts, measurements and policy implications : Process approach to energy balance, measurement issues
On some controversies in measurement of undernutrition : Energy requirement of a reference adult, theory of autoregulatory homeostasis, physical growth and anthropometric status
Measuring undernutrition with variable calorie requirements : Average calorie norm approach, undernutrition measures
Issues in measurement of understanding
Anthropometric measures of nutritional status in industrialized societies- Europe and north America since 1750
Second thoughts on European escape from hunger- famines, chronic malnutrition, and mortality rates
Intra- household allocation of nutrients and gender effects- survey of structural and reduced form estimates

Dewey Class. No.: 363.8 / OSM/N