UNITED NATIONS
NATIONS UNIES
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ON COORDINATION - SUBCOMMITTEE ON
NUTRITION
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ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ON COORDINATION - SUBCOMMITTEE ON
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Early 1990
A periodic review of developments in international nutrition compiled from information available to the ACC/SCN
Food for thought......nutrition and school performance
Now Available
Current ACC/SCN publications
SUPPLEMENT ON METHODS AND STATISTICS to the First Report on the World Nutrition Situation, December 1988
This publication is a source of reference for methodology used in the First Report on the World Nutrition Situation, giving sources of data, assumptions and analytical methods as well as the basic data used for that report.
WOMEN'S ROLE IN FOOD CHAIN ACTIVITIES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR NUTRITION by Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen, Ophelia Mascarenhas and Margareta Wandel.
ACC/SCN State-of-the-Art series. Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No. 4, May, 1989.
MALNUTRITION AND INFECTION - A REVIEW
by A. Tomkins and F. Watson
with discussion by N.S. Scrimshaw and an introduction by
the ACC/SCN Secretariat.
ACC/SCN State-of-the-Art series. Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No. 5, October, 1989.
(A Charge of $20 per copy will be made for 'Malnutrition and Infection' to those requesting from Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North America, to help cover costs).
Copies of these publications can be obtained by writing to the ACC/SCN Secretariat.
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Dr Abraham Horwitz |
Dr John B. Mason |
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Edited by John Mason, Associate Editor Mahshid
Lotfi with contributions from SCN staff Stuart Gillespie and Paula Yoon. We are
most grateful for contributions as shown in Sources after articles; for
review and comments on first two features by Reynaldo Martorell; and for the
cover illustrations by Lindsay Barrett, other drawings by Karen Test, and
computer graphics by Alan Kelly and Paula Yoon. |
Food for Thought - Nutrition and School Performance
Measuring Children - the Uses of Anthropometry
Malnutrition and Infection (part II)
Estimation of Flows of External Resources in relation to Nutrition
Street Foods: Socioeconomic Benefits Versus Potential Health Implications
Supplementary Feeding Counteracts Effects of Diarrhoea on Growth