Introduction to the US Food System (eBook)

Public Health, Environment, and Equity

Roni Neff (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014 | 1. Auflage
576 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-91305-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A public health approach to the US food system

Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health,
Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging
textbook that offers students an overview of today's US food
system, with particular focus on the food system's
interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and
society. Using a classroom-friendly approach, the text covers the
core content of the food system and provides evidence-based
perspectives reflecting the tremendous breadth of issues and ideas
important to understanding today's US food system. The book is rich
with illustrative examples, case studies, activities, and
discussion questions.

The textbook is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for a
Livable Future (CLF), and builds upon the Center's educational
mission to examine the complex interrelationships between diet,
food production, environment, and human health to advance an
ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the
public, and to promote policies that protect health, the global
environment, and the ability to sustain life for future
generations.

Issues covered in Introduction to the US Food System
include food insecurity, social justice, community and worker
health concerns, food marketing, nutrition, resource depletion, and
ecological degradation.

* Presents concepts on the foundations of the US food system,
crop production, food system economics, processing and packaging,
consumption and overconsumption, and the environmental impacts of
food

* Examines the political factors that influence food and how it
is produced

* Ideal for students and professionals in many fields, including
public health, nutritional science, nursing, medicine, environment,
policy, business, and social science, among others

Introduction to the US Food System presents a broad view
of today's US food system in all its complexity and provides
opportunities for students to examine the food system's stickiest
problems and think critically about solutions.

Autor

RONI NEFF, PHD, EDITOR, is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and directs the Food System Sustainability Program at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). She has worked in a wide variety of food system and public health research, policy, and practice roles throughout her career. THE JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR A LIVABLE FUTURE (CLF) is an interdisciplinary academic center focused on the interrelationships between food and public health.

Inhalt

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction: Systems, The Food System, and the Health of the Public

Part 1 Outcomes

Chapter 2 Food System Public Health Effects

Chapter 3 Ecological Threats to and From Food Systems

Chapter 4 The Food System and Health Inequities

Chapter 5 Public Health Implications Of Household Food

Chapter 6 Community Food Security

Part 2 Drivers of the Food System

Chapter 7 Food System Economics

Chapter 8 Policies That Shape The Us Food System

Chapter 9 Food, Culture, And Society

Chapter 10 Promotional Marketing: A Driver Of The Modern Food System

Part 3 Food Production, from Seed to Sales

Chapter 11 Crop Production And Food Systems

Chapter 12 Food Animal Production

Chapter 13 Food Processing And Packaging

Chapter 14 Food Distribution

Part 4 Food Consumption

Chapter 15 Food Consumption In The United States

Chapter 16 Nutrition

Chapter 17 Healthy Food Environments

Chapter 18 Intervening To Change Eating Patterns: How Can Individuals And Societies Affect Lasting Change Through Their Eating Patterns?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.10.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Environmental & Occupational Health • Food Processing, Production & Manufacture • Food Science & Technology • Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen • Gesundheitswesen / Umwelt u. Arbeitsplatz • Health & Social Care • Herstellung u. Verarbeitung von Lebensmitteln • Lebensmittelforschung u. -technologie • Public Health
• ISBN-10: 1-118-91305-1 / 1118913051
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-91305-5 / 9781118913055