Food technology and public health.

PUBLIC HEALTH Health Technology: Challenge to Public Health

Health technology includes drugs, procedures, techniques, and equipment used by health professionals to provide health care, and the organizational and supporting systems within which the care is delivered. Such new technology may comprehend new drugs, new medical devices and appliances, new medical activities and surgical procedures, health promotion and disease prevention activities, and orga...

Food and nutritional security and public health.

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 24(7):1464-1465, jul, 2008 Food and Nutritional Security has become an increasingly important area of public policy in Brazil. In the tumultuous process of constructing national values and practices, it has come to have a direct impact on the political and institutional make-up of various sectors of government and society. Until the 1990s, the main forms of f...

Our Food: Packaging & Public Health

Agricultural policies, food and public health.

What and how much we eat and drink has a significant influence on our health. this is evident in the epidemic of obesity sweeping across developed and developing nations alike, bringing in its wake a range of diseases including diabetes, coronary heart disease and some cancers. one main cause of this is a change in diet that has directly affected our health and well-being. For more than a centu...

Food and Its Relation to Public Health *

The human embryo is provided with the predigested food of the mother by means of the fetal circulation. After birth provision has been made for another highly nutritious and readily available source of food to the infant through the mammary gland of the mother. Normal infants under the usual conditions survive this period fairly well. Most of the trouble from food comes after the infant has bee...