Food, Nutrition, and Related Policy Considerations in China
Author : Chen Chunming
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Food supply
ISBN :
The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition
Author : T. Colin Campbell
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1942952902
Book Description
The revised and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of lives The science is clear. The results are unmistakable. You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet. More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease. What they found when combined with findings in Colin's laboratory, opened their eyes to the dangers of a diet high in animal protein and the unparalleled health benefits of a whole foods, plant-based diet. In 2005, Colin and his son Tom, now a physician, shared those findings with the world in The China Study, hailed as one of the most important books about diet and health ever written. Featuring brand new content, this heavily expanded edition of Colin and Tom's groundbreaking book includes the latest undeniable evidence of the power of a plant-based diet, plus updated information about the changing medical system and how patients stand to benefit from a surging interest in plant-based nutrition. The China Study—Revised and Expanded Edition presents a clear and concise message of hope as it dispels a multitude of health myths and misinformation. The basic message is clear. The key to a long, healthy life lies in three things: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries
Author : Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0801466369
Book Description
The food problems now facing the world—scarcity and starvation, contamination and illness, overabundance and obesity—are both diverse and complex. What are their causes? How severe are they? Why do they persist? What are the solutions? In three volumes that serve as valuable teaching tools and have been designed to complement the textbook Food Policy for Developing Countries by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Derrill D. Watson II, they call upon the wisdom of disciplines including economics, nutrition, sociology, anthropology, environmental science, medicine, and geography to create a holistic picture of the state of the world's food systems today. Volume I of the Case Studies addresses policies related to health, nutrition, food consumption, and poverty.
Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Book Description
Extending Health Insurance to the Rural Population
Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Child development
ISBN :
Book Description
Abstract: In 2003, after over 20 years of minimal health insurance coverage in rural areas, China launched a heavily subsidized voluntary health insurance program for rural residents. The authors use program and household survey data, as well as health facility census data, to analyze factors affecting enrollment into the program and to estimate its impact on households and health facilities. They obtain estimates by combining differences-in-differences with matching methods. The authors find some evidence of lower enrollment rates among poor households, holding other factors constant, and higher enrollment rates among households with chronically sick members. The household and facility data point to the scheme significantly increasing both outpatient and inpatient utilization (by 20-30 percent), but they find no impact on utilization in the poorest decile. For the sample as a whole, the authors find no statistically significant effects on average out-of-pocket spending, but they do find some-albeit weak-evidence of increased catastrophic health spending. For the poorest decile, by contrast, they find that the scheme increased average out-of-pocket spending but reduced the incidence of catastrophic health spending. They find evidence that the program has increased ownership of expensive equipment among central township health centers but had no impact on cost per case.
Development Centre Studies Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run
Author : Maddison Angus
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 1998-09-25
Category :
ISBN : 9264163557
Book Description
The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries, but which have not hitherto been available for China.
Handbook of Research on Agricultural Policy, Rural Development, and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Economies
Author : Jean Vasile, Andrei
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1522598391
Book Description
Promoting rural entrepreneurship is a necessary step to limit the negative effects of classical agricultural policy based on a linear process and attracting secondary resources to the economic process. The analysis of agricultural policy and rural development in conjunction to entrepreneurship in terms of production may represent a further step in understanding the role and importance of diversifying the rural potentials in contemporary economies. The Handbook of Research on Agricultural Policy, Rural Development, and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Economies is an essential publication of academic research that examines agricultural policy and its impact on shaping future resilient economy in rural areas and identifies green business models and new business patterns in rural communities. Covering a range of topics such as entrepreneurship, product management, and marketing, this book is ideal for researchers, policymakers, academicians, economists, agriculture professionals, rural developers, business investors, and students.
Food Safety in China
Author : Joseph Jwu-Shan Jen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1119237963
Book Description
From contaminated infant formula to a spate of all-too familiar headlines in recent years, food safety has emerged as one of the harsher realities behind China's economic miracle. Tainted beef, horse meat and dioxin outbreaks in the western world have also put food safety in the global spotlight. Food Safety in China: Science, Technology, Management and Regulation presents a comprehensive overview of the history and current state of food safety in China, along with emerging regulatory trends and the likely future needs of the country. Although the focus is on China, global perspectives are presented in the chapters and 33 of the 99 authors are from outside of China. Timely and illuminating, this book offers invaluable insights into our understanding of a critical link in the increasingly globalized complex food supply chain of today's world.
Second Report on the World Nutrition Situation
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Health status indicators
ISBN :
Book Description
Describes trends in nutrition and related indicators from 1975 to the most recent year available, usually 1990. The focus is on nutrition in developing countries, and stress is placed on malnutrition as it affects young children. Volume I presents trends and possible causal factors at the regional level; summarizes recent information on the major deficiencies; assembles information on what is known about malnutrition in women in developing countries; discusses the role of diet in causing chronic disease, particularly in countries in transition; explores how trends in the last 15 years, if projected into the future, compare with goals for improved nutrition in the 1990s; contains an outline of methods, data sources, bibliographic references, and other details. Volume II provides more detailed information at a country level.
Food policies and their implications on overweight and obesity trends in selected countries in the Near East and North Africa region
Author : International Food Policy Research Institute
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9251336830
Book Description
Regional and global trends in body weight show that the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region countries, especially the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries, have the highest average body mass index and highest rates of overweight and obesity in the world. There exist several explanations that expound the high rates of overweight and obesity in most NENA countries, including the nutrition transition, urbanization, changes in lifestyle, and consequent reduction of physical activities. This study examines the implication of food policies, mainly trade and government food subsidies, on evolving nutritional transitions and associated body weight outcomes. We examine the evolution of trade (food) policies, food systems, and body weight outcomes across selected countries in the NENA region – Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq. In particular, we investigate the implications of important trade (food) policies in shaping diets and food systems as well as their implications on public health outcomes, mainly the rising levels of overweight and obesity in the NENA region. We provide a simple conceptual framework through which trade policies (tariff rates) and domestic government food policies (subsidies) may affect food systems and nutritional outcomes. An important and innovative feature of this study is that it compiles several macro- and micro-level datasets that allow both macro and micro-level analyses of the evolution of trade (food) policies and associated obesity trends. This approach helps to at least partly overcome the data scarcity that complicates rigorous policy research in the NENA region. Overweight and obesity rates have almost doubled between 1975 and 2016, with varying rates and trends across regions. For instance, whereas body weight in the NENA region was comparable with that found in high-income countries in the early years, after the 1990s regional overweight and obesity rates became much higher than those in high-income countries. Specifically, while most high-income countries are experiencing a relative slowing of increases in overweight rates, the trend for the NENA region continues to increase at higher rates. The evolution of overweight rates for the GCC countries are even more concerning. These trends are likely to contribute to the already high burden of non-communicable diseases in the NENA region.
