Product Description

COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION, FOURTH EDITION is the perfect text to introduce students to the program planning, policies, resources, and nutrition issues specific to community nutrition, providing an understanding of creating and implementing nutrition programs from various constituencies (elderly populations, children, impoverished populations, college students, etc.). Successful practitioners in community nutrition have proven to have a mind and skill set that opens them up to new ideas and ventures. Incorporating an entrepreneurial approach, this text encourages students to learn how to take risks, try new technologies, and use fresh approaches to improving the public's nutrition and health status. The text also delivers the core material important to those who will be active in solving community nutritional and health problems, including program delivery, nutrition education, nutrition assessment, and planning nutrition interventions. From the "Case Studies" to the "Community Learning Activities," students are provided with both practical advice and applications to support active learning.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71923 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-26
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 704 pages

Book Info
College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ. Textbook, for students and practitioners, provides core information necessary to solve nutritional and health problems in the community. Focuses on the tools used by community nutritionists to identify health problems and design programs to alleviate them. Each chapter includes an outline and learning objectives. Previous edition: c1994.

About the Author
Dr. Marie A. Boyle is Adjunct Professor and former Director of the Graduate Program in Nutrition at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, N.J., and is Editor of the new "Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition" for Haworth Press. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Southern Maine, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Nutrition from Florida State University. Marie Boyle is the author of two successful texts, PERSONAL NUTRITION, Sixth Edition, co-authored with Sara Long (Thomson, 2007), and COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION: AN ENTREPRENEURIAL APPROACH, Fourth Edition, co-authored with Dr. David Holben (Thomson, 2006).

Dr. David H. Holben is Associate Professor and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics at Ohio University. He completed a B.S. in Dietetics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a dietetic internship at Detroit's Harper Hospital, a MA in Food Science and Nutrition/Food Service Management at Wayne State University, and both a MS and Ph.D. in Human Nutrition from The Ohio State University. He is the co-author of COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION: AN ENTREPRENEURIAL APPROACH, Fourth Edition (Thomson, 2006) and numerous scholarly works related to food security and hunger.

Customer Reviews

Good overview of Community Nutrition
I found this book to be informative with many good graphics and photos. There are a lot of statistics and many internet links provided for further information or research.

older ed. vs. new ed
this book seems to be fairly close to the newer edition, but with a couple of difference. I have noticed some case study questions are different. I have really read it that much yet though.

dry as toast
if this isnt required for a course, i would highly discourage anyone from purchasing this book. contains necessary information but is poorly written (does not flow well, authors try to use informal language) and is structured in a way that is not conducive to learning.