Brunner, Eric, Rayner, Mike, Thorogood, Margaret, Margetts, Barrie M., Hooper, Lee, Summerbell, Carolyn, Dowler, Elizabeth, 1951-, 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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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
Date:	December 2001
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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