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Nutrition and Public Health will introduce you to an evidence-based approach to the relationship between diet, nutritional status and health in populations. We will introduce you to the main concepts of nutritional epidemiology using national and international data and we will shed light to the value of systematic research approaches to evaluate the impact of nutrition interventions in populations.
The study of public health is one of the most exciting areas of nutrition science. You will examine how promotion and maintenance of nutrition-related population health require the organised efforts and informed choices of society. You will explore important problems in food policy with external speakers representing the range of interests that influence what we eat.
Some of the topics you will discuss include the role of food supply and nutrition in population health, dietary requirements and reference values, developmental origins of chronic disease and the epigenetic impact of early year feeding practices and nutritional supplementation and fortification strategies for deficiency diseases that still prevail. You will study different aspects of the obesogenic environment in industrialised and developing countries, the role of food industry in shaping our eating habits, and the nutrition challenges in older adults.
After taking this module you should be able to describe the main national and international data on diet and nutritional status in the population and in high risk sub-groups, to understand the scientific basis of and recommendation from government policy relating to diet and health, to evaluate the strength of evidence relating diet to health outcomes and to interpret complex and conflicting scientific data.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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