tailieunhanh - Women and Health Learning Package Developed by The Network: TUFH Women and Health Taskforce Second edition, September 2006

The current nutritional and health profiles of the Mexican population reflect notable failures in the field of social policies. Protein-energy malnutrition and infectious diseases are still relevant public health matters among poor rural and urban populations, and they remain common causes of death during infancy and childhood, and even later in life. By contrast, overweight and obesity affect a large proportion of the adult urban population and are rapidly increasing among young children and lower income groups; over the last decades, the high prevalence rates of obesity have been a major factor in the increase of chronic diseases, which. | NUTRITION AND WOMEN S HEALTH Women and Health Learning Package Developed by The Network TUFH Women and Health Taskforce Second edition September 2006 Support for the production of the Women and Health Learning Package WHLP has been provided by The Network Towards Unity for Health The Network TUFH Global Health through Education Training and Service GHETS and the Global Knowledge Partnership. Copies of this and other WHLP modules and related materials are available on The Network TUFH website at http publications_resources or by contacting GHETS by email at info@ or by fax at 1 508 448-8346. About the authors Pilar Torre Medina-Mora MPH Full Professor Department of Health Care Division of Biological and Health Sciences Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco Mexico City Mexico Pilar Torre a nutritionist graduated from the Faculty of Nutrition Ibero-American University Mexico and holds a masters degree from the National Institute of Public Health Cuernavaca Mexico. She began work at the Metropolitan Autonomous University Xochimilco Campus UAM-X in 1992 and has been a full professor since 2000. Before entering the UAM she worked at the Ministry of Health and at the National Institute of Nutrition Mexico. Her academic interests include infant and child nutrition breastfeeding practices and women s health and nutrition. She was the coordinator of the Research Unit on Health and Society and she teaches subjects related to infant and maternal health and nutrition. She also collaborated in the design of a new curriculum proposal to train nutrition professionals at the UAM-X. Pilar Torre served as an external advisor to UNICEF from 1982 to 1986 and to the High Commissioner of United Nations for Refugees from 1989 to1992 in the implementation of emergency programs for Guatemalan refugees in the south-eastern region of Mexico. She collaborates with a Mexican NGO dedicated to the improvement of the nutritional status .

• Sức khỏe phụ nữ
• Prevention and Future
• Behavioral and Psychosocial
• Obesity and Quality
• Diverse Ethnicity
• Low Socioeconomics
• Based Solutions
• School based universal prevention programs for pediatric obesity
• Provide preventive health services
• Areas for further research
• Preventing pediatric obesity
• School based research
• Psychological Impact
• Chronic Renal Failure
• Renal Replacement