NUSCTX 166 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Osteoporosis, Sugary Drink Tax, Food Fortification

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Nutritional Sciences And Toxicology
• Course: NUSCTX 166
• Professor: Henderson M N

Document Summary

Lecture 1: course introduction & community nutrition overview. Definition per text: a group of people who are located in a particular space (including cyber space), have shared values, and interact within a social system. Components: people, a location in space, social interactions, shared values. Common interest/goal: a collection of people, even if scattered geographically, can be a common interest community. Community member make-up: know and interact with one another, function within a particular social structure, show and create norms, values, and social institutions. A discipline that strives to prevent disease and to improve health, nutrition, and well- being of individuals and groups within communities . Focus of community nutrition: people, policy, programs. Lecture 2: our nation"s health/social determinants of health & health disparities. Who definition: a discipline that strives to prevent disease and to improve health, nutrition, and well-being of individuals and groups within communities. Continuum of health: well population at risk population established disease chronic controlled disease.