Nutrición pública: una visión integral e integradora

ABSTRACT: Public nutrition is the application of nutrition science focused on population; it is related to public policies, and investigation. Its actions are directed to solve public issues counting on people’s participation and with all the economic and social components that contribute with people’s development. Public nutrition studies the nutritional process on human groups and the political, social, economical, cultural and ethical factors that impact the population's nutritional welfare and also it facilitates increasing people’s awareness about their nutritional conditions, the causes and effects of nutrition problems on health. In addition, this science allows people identify their own rights for better social life conditions. Today, public nutrition is facing many problems that are directly affecting the population's nutritional situation as the growing and ageing of the population, the epidemiological and nutritional transition, globalization, and environment concerns, additionally inequality and poverty increasing of the discriminated and marginal social groups. To resolve these problems, public nutrition policies need to be based on scientific evidence and supported by global and sustainable health programs.

• Autores: Álvarez Uribe, Martha Cecilia
• Tipo de recurso: Review article
• Fecha de publicación: 2007
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/10535
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/10535
• Palabra clave: Nutrición pública; Public nutrition; Nutrición comunitaria; Community nutrition; Planificación alimentaria y nutricional; Food and nutrition planning; Políticas públicas; Public policies
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Colombia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CO)