Free eBooks Introduction To The US Food System: Public Health, Environment, And Equity Available To Downloads

                
              
Free eBooks 
Introduction To The US Food System: Public Health, Environment, And Equity Available To Downloads
A public health approach to the US food system Introduction 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 food Examines the political factors that influence food and how it is produced Ideal for students and professionals in many fields, including public health, nutritional science, nursing, medicine, environment, policy, business, and social science, among others  Introduction 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 examine the food system's stickiest problems and think critically about solutions.
Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (October 20, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118063384
ISBN-13: 978-1118063385
Product Dimensions:  8.5 x 1.2 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #298,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)   #23 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Occupational & Industrial Medicine   #34 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Occupational   #280 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Administration & Policy > Public Health
Excellent resource for any course of study involving the US Food System. Implications are well explained and in many cases complete with working examples. Given the subject matter, I just never thought of America as having a "food system." This book is an excellent introduction to the "bigger" global thought process and how we effect and are effected by our food sources, including how and why we are becoming more antibiotic resistant.
The best overview of the US food system I've ever seen.
it is well written
Good read
Good book that went along with a good free class at Coursera. Well presented.
Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity Public Health Nursing - Revised Reprint: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 8e (Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community) The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education 100 Exotic Food Recipes (Puerto Rican Food Recipes,Picnic Food RecipesCaribbean Food Recipes,Food Processor Recipes,) Community/Public Health Nursing Online for Stanhope and Lancaster, Public Health Nursing (Access Code and Textbook Package), 7e Intensive rural hygiene work and public health education of the Public health service of Netherlands India [Indonesia] Essentials Of Public Health - Third Edition (Essential Public Health) Epidemiology For Public Health Practice (Friis, Epidemiology for Public Health Practice) Community & Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public's Health The Manual to Online Public Records: The Researcher's Tool to Online Resources of Public Records and Public Information ORGANIC COOKBOOK: Healthy And Delicious Baby Food Recipes Which Are Nutritious And Easy To Cook (organic food, food recipes, nutritious food) Homemade Baby Food: 17 Wholesome Baby Food Recipes for Easy, Nutritious, and Delicious Homemade Baby Food (How to Make Baby Food) Raw Food Diet: 50+ Raw Food Recipes Inside This Raw Food Cookbook. Raw Food Diet For Beginners In This Step By Step Guide To Successfully Transitioning ... Vegan Cookbook, Vegan Diet, Vegan Recipes) Raw Food: Lazy Man's Guide To Raw Food Success (raw food, raw vegan, raw food diet, raw vegan diet, 801010, 801010 diet,) Institutional Investor Activism: Hedge Funds and Private Equity, Economics and Regulation Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (Chicago Series in Law and Society) Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture Book 3) Environmental Governance (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts) Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: Human Behavior in the Social Environment (SW 327 Human Behavior and the Social Environment) The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future (Multicultural Education Series) 