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Brunner, Eric, Rayner, Mike, Thorogood, Margaret, Margetts, Barrie M., Hooper, Lee, Summerbell, Carolyn, Dowler, Elizabeth, Hewitt, Gillian, Robertson, Aileen and Wiseman, Martin. (2001) Making Public Health Nutrition relevant to evidence-based action. Public Health Nutrition, Vol.4 (No.6). pp. 1297-1299. ISSN 1368-9800

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/PHN2001272

Abstract

Public health nutrition enjoyed many breakthroughs in the
20th century – from the discovery of vitamins and the
metabolic roles of some 60 macro- and micronutrients, to
the effects of maternal and childhood diet on health over
the life course. Moreover, the food shortages in the UK that
were experienced during World War II gave the first
opportunity to show that nutritional science could make a
valuable contribution to public policy. However, public
health nutrition is now facing the challenge of deriving
recommendations based on systematically evaluated
evidence; that is, the new concept of evidence-based
nutrition. This challenge was foreseen by John Garrow
almost 10 years ago in his lucid editorial proposing the
formation of meta-analysis ‘clubs'.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine

Divisions:

Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Public health -- Research, Nutrition -- Research, Nutrition -- Study and teaching, Diet -- Europe

Journal or Publication Title:

Public Health Nutrition

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

ISSN:

1368-9800

Official Date:

December 2001

Dates:

Date	Event
December 2001	Published

Volume:

Vol.4

Number:

No.6

Page Range:

pp. 1297-1299

Identification Number:

10.1079/PHN2001272

Status:

Peer Reviewed

Access rights to Published version:

Open Access

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URI:

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/823

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