Practical Public Health Nutrition

Providing the reader with a practice-focussed approach to public
health nutrition intervention management, Practical Public Health
Nutrition is a crucial resource for dietitians, community and
public health nutritionists and related health professionals in
need of a practical guide to practicing public health nutrition.

Internationally recognised experts Hughes and Margetts describe
in detail the rationale, processes and tools that can be used to
assess population needs, analyse problems and develop effective
interventions at a community level.

Exercises in each section of the book contribute to a collective
PHN intervention plan, providing the reader with the opportunity to
demonstrate an outcome of intervention management.

Unique in its approach to teaching the practical applications of
this increasingly crucial discipline, Practical Public Health
Nutrition is a vital purchase for anyone working in the public
health arena.

• Clearly outlines the practice of PHN intervention
  management

• Covers rationale, processes and tools needed to develop
  effective interventions at community level

• Written by 2 internationally respected authorities on the
  discipline of Public Health Nutrition

• Essential text for dietitians, community and public health
  nutritions and related health professionals

Auteur

Professor Roger Hughes is based at Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia. Professor Barrie Margetts is based at the University of Southampton, UK.

Résumé
Providing the reader with a practice-focussed approach to public health nutrition intervention management, Practical Public Health Nutrition is a crucial resource for dietitians, community and public health nutritionists and related health professionals in need of a practical guide to practicing public health nutrition. Internationally recognised experts Hughes and Margetts describe in detail the rationale, processes and tools that can be used to assess population needs, analyse problems and develop effective interventions at a community level.

Exercises in each section of the book contribute to a collective PHN intervention plan, providing the reader with the opportunity to demonstrate an outcome of intervention management.

Unique in its approach to teaching the practical applications of this increasingly crucial discipline, Practical Public Health Nutrition is a vital purchase for anyone working in the public health arena.

• Clearly outlines the practice of PHN intervention management
• Covers rationale, processes and tools needed to develop effective interventions at community level
• Written by 2 internationally respected authorities on the discipline of Public Health Nutrition
• Essential text for dietitians, community and public health nutritions and related health professionals

Contenu

Preface ix

Acknowledgements x

Glossary xi

Part 1 Introduction and context 1

1 The big picture: The context for a textbook on public health nutrition practice 3

Why develop a public health nutrition textbook? 3

Malnutrition is still the main game 3

Innovative solutions are needed 4

Surely you don't mean these challenges can be found in rich countries like mine? 4

Level of influence 5

Practice informed by a public health approach 5

First, work to understand the causes, by looking upstream 5

Practitioners and politics 6

The philosophy underpinning this book 6

Building capacity for effective public health nutrition action 7

2 Defining public health nutrition as a field of practice 9

Introduction 9

Modes of nutrition practice 10

Definitions of public health nutrition 12

An emphasis on the prevention of food and nutrition problems 12

The core functions of the PHN workforce 15

Competencies for PHN practice 17

Professionalism and PHN practice 18

3 A framework for public health nutrition practice 21

Introduction 21

A socio-ecological approach to practice 21

The PHN practice cycle 22

Recognising the importance of capacity building as a discrete strategy and as an approach to practice 23

Why make things more complicated and introduce a new framework? 25

A bi-cyclic framework for public health nutrition practice 28

Part 2 Intelligence 29

4 Step 1: Community engagement and analysis 31

Introduction 33

What is a community? 33

Why Community engagement? 33

Community development constructs 34

Community development a process or an outcome? 36

Building community capital (and capacity) 37

Building capacity via 'bottom-up' practice 38

Community analysis 40

5 Step 2: Problem analysis 43

Introduction 45

Public health intelligence 45

What is Problem analysis? 46

Types of need 47

Conducting a Problem analysis 47

Different methodological approaches to gather intelligence for problem assessment 51

Applying the intelligence and analysis results 53

6 Step 3: Stakeholder analysis and engagement 57

Introduction 59

Why stakeholder engagement? 59

Stakeholder analysis 60

Considerations for Stakeholder analysis 60

Conducting the Stakeholder analysis 61

Organising and presenting Stakeholder analysis data 63

Stakeholder engagement 67

Engaging stakeholders in decision-making 67

7 Step 4: Determinant analysis 71

Introduction 73

Analysing determinants 73

Characterising determinants by their effect 74

Characterising determinants by the type of causal link 75

Characterising determinants by level 76

Determinant interaction and causal pathways 77

Diagrammatic illustration of determinant analysis 79

8 Step 5: Capacity analysis 81

Introduction 83

What is capacity? 83

A framework for capacity building practice 84

Capacity assessment for capacity building 84

Challenges in measuring capacity 86

Selecting tools for Capacity analysis 86

Tools and strategies for analysing capacity 89

Presenting Capacity analysis data 96

9 Step 6: Mandates for public health nutrition action 99

Introduction 101

Mandates for action the policy context 101

Policy development an overview 102

The challenge of competing policy agendas 103

National food and nutrition policies 104

Mandates for action direct relevance to PHN practice 104 <p...