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The Management of Nutrition in Major Emergencies

WHO

Published in : 2000

Available in : English

This manual is intended to help nutrition, health and other professionals involved in the management of major emergencies with a nutritional component, whether at local, national or international level.
Chapter 1: Meeting nutritional requirements
Chapter 2: Major nutritional deficiencies in emergencies
Chapter 3: Assessment and surveillance of nutritional status
Chapter 4: Nutritional relief: general feeding programmes
Chapter 5: Nutritional relief: selective feeding programmes
Chapter 6: Prevention and control of communicable diseases
Chapter 7: The context: emergency and preparedness and response programmes

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Themes: Emergency, general, Interventions, general, Micronutrients, general, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, general, Nutrition assessments and M&E, general, Nutrition planning, policy and programme, general, Anthropometry, Food Rations, HTP module 01, HTP module 03, HTP module 04, HTP module 08, HTP module 11, HTP module 12, HTP module 14, HTP module 20, Iodine / IDD, Iron / Anaemia, Niacin / Pellagra, Supplementary feeding, Supplementary feeding, Therapeutic feeding, RUF/RUTF, Therapeutic feeding, RUF/RUTF, Thiamin / Beriberi, Vitamin A / Night blindness, Vitamin C / Scurvy