Toward a comprehensive approach to nutrition/health planning for poor countries†
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ecology of Food and Nutrition
- Vol. 11 (4) , 225-233
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.1982.9990681
Abstract
The paper addresses the problem of design for poor countries health/nutrition programs which are compatible both with national development goals and the constraints imposed by the village milieu in which human needs must be met. National level nutrition, health, family planning, food production and other programs are considered along with their sometimes conflicting impacts on variables such as nutritional status, infant/child mortality, personal productivity, population growth rate, employment, food production, GNP growth rate, government budget balance, foreign exchange balance and distribution of wealth. The paper describes an illustrative village level nutrition/health program designed to meet key human needs within realistic budget constraints and concludes with a discussion of useful roles computer models can play in comprehensive nutrition/health planning.Keywords
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