Nurturing Our Women & Children

Food habits are not necessarily related to nutrition and life style pattern. These habits are related with culture, environment and availability of food. Therefore, it is argued that life style patterns and food habits must be linked with nutritonal requirements in such a way that disease could be prevented or cured deprived nutrition at developing stage resutls in retardation of growth, poor health, reduced efficiency and also a poor level of social output. The social welfare policies and programmes globaly are extensive in approach. The programme become more steamlined and were integrative in nature. Aimed to reach to the pooer sections, they have tried to integrate different types of services to cater a variety of needs. It is this phenomena in its varied dimensions which the editor of this encyclopaedia has tried to explore. She had provided an objective critique of the contradictions and consequences of the development and disparities. There are some definite linkages between development and disparities. Tackling as its does varies concerns which are of growing importance in most developing countries, the collection in this encyclopaedia is of thought provoking critical reviews papers articles from India and abroad which would appeal to a wide range of readers.
About Author :
Debashri Ray has done here Graduate and Post graduate degrees from University of Kanpur. She has served in various organisation as nutritionist and possess vast experience in the field of women and child health development at grass root level. Her present area of interests are women and child development, education and Health. She has to here credit various articles published in different maganzines and journals of repute.
Contents :
Vol.1: Conceptualizationo f Health and Nutrition Vol.2 Nutritional Trends in Third World Countries