Public health nutrition practice in the United States

Definitions for public health nutrition: a developing consensus

“…Johnson et al 5 (USA) Public health nutrition practice includes an array of services and activities to ensure conditions in which people can achieve and maintain nutritional health, including surveillance and monitoring nutrition-related health status and risk factors, community or population-based assessment, programme planning and evaluation, leadership in community/population interventions that collaborate across disciplines, programmes and agencies, and leadership in addressing the access and quality issues around direct nutrition services to populations Strategic Intergovernmental Nutrition Alliance 7 (Australia) Public health nutrition focuses on issues affecting the whole population rather than the specific dietary needs of individuals. The impact of food production, distribution and consumption on the nutritional status and health of particular population groups is taken into account, together with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours in the broader community…”

Exploring green criminology: toward a green criminological revolution

“…These effects can be enhanced when the individual who comes into contact with pollutants are in their early life course or developmental phase (grandjean et al, 2008). But, the life course of pollutants may also have differential effects when they impact people who have compromised life courses that are shaped by poverty or those with compromised immune systems (Johnson et al, 2001). likewise, we can think of this interaction with respect to its impact on sensitive ecosystem components and subsystems (Catallo, 1993).…”

Problem-solving strategies in public health nutrition. Socio-ecological approach and systematic application

“…Im Jahr 2001 erschien im Journal of the American Dietetic Association ein Kommentar zu Public Health Nutrition in den USA [14], der im Wesentlichen deren Notwendigkeit in der Zukunft begründet. Faye Wong, damals amtierende Präsidentin der American Public Health Association, umriss die Verantwortung für "public health nutritionists" damit, zum einen ein Bewusstsein dafür zu schaffen, wie die sich verändernde Umwelt auf uns sowie auf das, was wir essen, wirkt und zum anderen der Lebensmittelindustrie und Gastronomie zu verdeutlichen, welchen Einfluss sie auf den Verzehr von Lebensmitteln und die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung haben.…”

“…Johnson et al [14] resümieren, dass die Grenzen eines rein auf das Individuum bezogenen Vorgehens in der Ernährungs-beratung gut bekannt sind. Sie fordern die Entwicklung eines neuen konzeptionellen Ansatzes, um Gesundheitsziele zu erreichen, Lebensqualität zu verbessern und gesundheitliche Ungleichheit zu beseitigen.…”

“…1). Inzwischen gilt auch für Deutschland annähernd das, was Wong 2002 für die USA formulierte: "Nutrition has a really important contribution, because obesity is a big problem in this country..." [14].…”