3233.0 Nutrition and Malnutrition

Monday, November 9, 2009: 12:30 PM
Oral
Overview of international nutrition programs
Session Objectives: List 2 major nutritional issues of global importance Discuss programs addressing malnutrition Describe interventions to prevent malnutrition
Moderator:
Maggie Huff-Rousselle, MA, MBA, PhD

12:30 PM
Use of coping strategies to detect households at risk for malnutrition during humanitarian emergencies
Adam C. Levine, MD, MPH, P. Gregg Greenough, MD, MPH, Pina Patel, MD, Radwan Qasrawi, MS and Ziad Abdeen
  
12:45 PM
Determinants of stunting and wasting among Malian rural and urban adolescent girls
Timothy F. Leslie, PhD and Lisa R. Pawloski, PhD
  
1:00 PM
Discovering indigenous food practices of Bangladeshi families through photovoice
Hendrika Maltby, PhD, RN, Mohammed Omar Rahman, MD, MPH, DSc and Rita Yusuf, PhD
  
1:15 PM
Hunger and Risk for Emotional and Behavioral Problems: A Comparison between Students in Botswana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia
Monica H. Swahn, PhD, Robert M. Bossarte, PhD, Elizabeth Gaylor and Dena Musa Elimam, MPH
1:30 PM
Factors affecting malnutrition in twelve mayan communities surrounding Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Paul Kadetz, PhD, MSN, MPH
  

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Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Food and Nutrition, Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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