Community Nutrition

This database provides access to over 280 leading nursing and related allied health journals. For several publications full-text coverage dates from 1992. For some, full-image articles go back to 1988. Supplements the CINAHL database by providing access to additional full-text journals.

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The entries in this text cover the major facets of epidemiology, from risk ratios to case-control studies, to mediating and moderating varibles.  Relevant topics from related fields such as biostatistics and health economics are also included.

A print version of this text is also available in the Brescia reference section.

The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health, Second Edition is the authoritative A-to-Z guide to all aspects of nutrition and maintaining a healthful diet. This thoroughly revised, comprehensive resource presents the findings of the latest research in the field: the health benefits and dangers of foods; diseases and health disorders related to nutrition; processed foods and their side effects; food allergies; eating disorders; and much more. Topics include: body mass index; cancer prevention and diet; cardiovascular disease; cholestrol-lowering drugs; essential nutrients; ephedra (Ephedra sinica); fiber and disease prevention; low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL); meat contaminants; milk and lactose intolerance; and Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)." "Concise and extensively cross-referenced, The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health, Second Edition is the one-stop guide to the mass of nutritional information available today.

Geriatric Nutrition: the Health Professional's Handbook provides practical, current information that can be applied to assessing nutritional status, preventing and managing disease, and creating more effective health promotion strategies.  This text also explores the role of nutrition in the maintenance of health, the management of chronic conditions, and the treatment of serious ilness in the elderly.

This book begins with a summary of the epidemiology of childhood obesity, stressing health and economic consequences. Focusing on the etiology of childhood obesity related to the regulation of body weight/energy balance during growth and development, The Handbook of Pediatric Obesity examines obesity-related diseases in children such as pediatric type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and the metabolic syndrome, and includes detailed reviews of behavioral and environmental aspects, and overviews of interventions for treatment and prevention.