Introduction to the US Food System

Roni Neff 지음

Jossey-Bass 2014년 10월 08일 출간

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A public health approach to the US food systemIntroduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging textbook that offers students an overview of today's US food system, with particular focus on the food system's interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society. Using a classroom-friendly approach, the text covers the core content of the food system and provides evidence-based perspectives reflecting the tremendous breadth of issues and ideas important to understanding today's US food system. The book is rich with illustrative examples, case studies, activities, and discussion questions.The textbook is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), and builds upon the Center's educational mission to examine the complex interrelationships between diet, food production, environment, and human health to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public, and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment, and the ability to sustain life for future generations.Issues covered in Introduction to the US Food System include food insecurity, social justice, community and worker health concerns, food marketing, nutrition, resource depletion, and ecological 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 of foodExamines the political factors that influence food and how it is producedIdeal for students and professionals in many fields, including public health, nutritional science, nursing, medicine, environment, policy, business, and social science, among othersIntroduction to the US Food System presents a broad view of today's US food system in all its complexity and provides opportunities for students to exa

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ForewordIntroductionChapter 1 Introduction: Systems, The Food System, and the Health of the PublicPart 1 OutcomesChapter 2 Food System Public Health EffectsChapter 3 Ecological Threats to and From Food SystemsChapter 4 The Food System and Health InequitiesChapter 5 Public Health Implications Of Household FoodChapter 6 Community Food SecurityPart 2 Drivers of the Food SystemChapter 7 Food System EconomicsChapter 8 Policies That Shape The Us Food SystemChapter 9 Food, Culture, And SocietyChapter 10 Promotional Marketing: A Driver Of The Modern Food SystemPart 3 Food Production, from Seed to SalesChapter 11 Crop Production And Food SystemsChapter 12 Food Animal ProductionChapter 13 Food Processing And PackagingChapter 14 Food DistributionPart 4 Food ConsumptionChapter 15 Food Consumption In The United States&Chapter 16 NutritionChapter 17 Healthy Food Environments&Chapter 18 Intervening To Change Eating Patterns: How Can Individuals And Societies Affect Lasting Change Through Their Eating Patterns?

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저자(글) Roni Neff

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RONI NEFF, PHD, EDITOR, is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and directs the Food System Sustainability Program at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future #40;CLF#41;. She has worked in a wide variety of food system and public health research, policy, and practice roles throughout her career.THE JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR A LIVABLE FUTURE #40;CLF#41; is an interdisciplinary academic center focused on the interrelationships between food and public health.