Neff Introduction to the US Food System

Public Health, Environment, and Equity
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-91306-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten, E-Book

A public health approach to the US food system
Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health,Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engagingtextbook that offers students an overview of today's US foodsystem, with particular focus on the food system'sinterrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, andsociety. Using a classroom-friendly approach, the text covers thecore content of the food system and provides evidence-basedperspectives reflecting the tremendous breadth of issues and ideasimportant to understanding today's US food system. The book is richwith illustrative examples, case studies, activities, anddiscussion questions.
The textbook is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for aLivable Future (CLF), and builds upon the Center's educationalmission to examine the complex interrelationships between diet,food production, environment, and human health to advance anecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of thepublic, and to promote policies that protect health, the globalenvironment, and the ability to sustain life for futuregenerations.
Issues covered in Introduction to the US Food Systeminclude food insecurity, social justice, community and workerhealth concerns, food marketing, nutrition, resource depletion, andecological degradation.
* Presents concepts on the foundations of the US food system,crop production, food system economics, processing and packaging,consumption and overconsumption, and the environmental impacts offood
* Examines the political factors that influence food and how itis produced
* Ideal for students and professionals in many fields, includingpublic health, nutritional science, nursing, medicine, environment,policy, business, and social science, among others
Introduction to the US Food System presents a broad viewof today's US food system in all its complexity and providesopportunities for students to examine the food system's stickiestproblems and think critically about solutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neff, Roni

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction: Systems, The Food System, and the Health of the Public
Part 1 Outcomes
Chapter 2 Food System Public Health Effects
Chapter 3 Ecological Threats to and From Food Systems
Chapter 4 The Food System and Health Inequities
Chapter 5 Public Health Implications Of Household Food
Chapter 6 Community Food Security
Part 2 Drivers of the Food System
Chapter 7 Food System Economics
Chapter 8 Policies That Shape The Us Food System
Chapter 9 Food, Culture, And Society
Chapter 10 Promotional Marketing: A Driver Of The Modern Food System
Part 3 Food Production, from Seed to Sales
Chapter 11 Crop Production And Food Systems
Chapter 12 Food Animal Production
Chapter 13 Food Processing And Packaging
Chapter 14 Food Distribution
Part 4 Food Consumption
Chapter 15 Food Consumption In The United States
Chapter 16 Nutrition
Chapter 17 Healthy Food Environments
Chapter 18 Intervening To Change Eating Patterns: How Can Individuals And Societies Affect Lasting Change Through Their Eating Patterns?

Über Autor(innen)

RONI NEFF, PHD, EDITOR, is an assistantprofessor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at theJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and directs theFood System Sustainability Program at the Johns Hopkins Center fora Livable Future (CLF). She has worked in a wide variety of foodsystem and public health research, policy, and practice rolesthroughout her career.
THE JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR A LIVABLE FUTURE (CLF) is aninterdisciplinary academic center focused on the interrelationshipsbetween food and public health.