This book provides a detailed view of public nutrition and health. It discusses the various statistical tools and their appropriate application in public health and nutrition research, surveys, evaluation and program designing. The subject matter of this book covers a range of topics including statistical issues pertaining to measurement of hunger and food security, hunger mapping, diseases in community clusters, randomized response technique for sensitive characteristics, small area estimation and gender disparity.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-76070-4 (9781032760704)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
AK Nigam served as Professor and Head, Training & Basic Research at the Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), India. He specializes in public health, food and agriculture and nutrition. He conducted the state-based women and child nutrition survey for the Department of Women and Child, State Government of Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Foreword, Why this book
1. Quantitative research methods
2. Qualitative methods
3. Maternal and infant survival
4. Undernutrition
5. Nutritional deficiency disorders and immunization
6. Anemia
7. Adolescent reproductive sexual health
8. Gender disparity
9. Food insecurity and hunger
10. Diseases in community clusters
11. Analysis of multiple response data
12. Randomized response technique (for sensitive characteristics)
13. Small area estimation (for inadequate sample size)
References, WHO growth standards tables, Index
