The riddle of malnutrition : the long arc of biomedical and public health interventions in Uganda /

More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hos...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tappan, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017]
Colección:Perspectives on global health.
Temas:
Malnutrition in children > Uganda > Prevention.
Malnutrition in infants > Uganda > Prevention.
Nutrition policy > Uganda.
Preventive health services > Uganda.
Malnutrition > Treatment > Uganda.
Infants.
Children.
Public health.
Malnutrition > prevention & control
Infant
Child
Public Health
Preventive Health Services
Politique alimentaire > Ouganda.
Soins médicaux préventifs > Ouganda.
Malnutrition > Traitement > Ouganda.
Nourrissons.
Enfants.
Santé publique.
infants.
children (people by age group)
public health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY / Africa / General
Public health
Infants
Children
Malnutrition in children > Prevention
Malnutrition > Treatment
Nutrition policy
Preventive health services
Uganda
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Diagnostic uncertainty and its consequences
  • Medicalizing malnutrition
  • The miracle of Kitobero
  • In the shadows of structural adjustment and HIV
  • Epilogue : remedicalizing malnutrition and the Plumpy'Nut Revolution.

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