TY - BOOK AU - Karpyn,Allison ED - Ohio Library and Information Network. TI - Food and public health: a practical introduction AV - HD9000.6 .F66 2018 PY - 2018///] CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Food supply KW - Government policy KW - United States KW - Food Industry KW - Diet KW - Health Policy KW - local KW - Print books N1 - The history of food and public health / Emily Contois and Anastasia Day -- History and development of the 2015-2020 dietary guidelines for Americans / Alice H. Lichtenstein and Allison Karpyn -- Behavioral design as an emerging theory for dietary behavior change / NCCOR Behavioral Design Working Group -- Health disparities : race, ethnicity, gender and class / Alison G.M. Brown and Sara C. Folta -- Healthy food marketing / Allison Karpyn -- Policy efforts supporting healthy diets for adults and children / Courtney A. Pinard, Eric E. Calloway, Teresa M. Smith, Amy L. Yaroh -- Food insecurity and public health / Molly Knowles, Joanna Simmons, Mariana Chilton -- Obesogenic environments and public health mitigation strategies / Allison Karpyn -- Food controversies : the healthy pulse of a democracy? / F. Bailey Norwood -- The obesity pandemic & food insecurity in developing countries : a case study from the Caribbean / Kristen Lowitt, Katherine Gray-Donald, Gordon M. Hickey, Arlette Saint Ville, Isabella Francis-Granderson, Chandra A. Madramootoo, and Leroy Phillip -- Intersections of food and culture : case studies of sugar and meat from Australia, Japan, Thailand, and Nigeria / Wakako Takeda, Cathy Banwell, Kelebogile T. Setiloane, and Melissa K. Melby -- From soil to stomach : agritourism and public health / Erecia Hepburn and Allison Karpyn; Available to OhioLINK libraries N2 - A new introduction to public health's most elemental topic. Food is baked in to most things that public health is and does. But for a field charged with carrying torches as divergent as anti-hunger and anti-obesity, it's unlikely, even impossible, to shape a unified approach to complex concepts like food environment, food access, or even nutrition.Food and Public Health offers a contextualized, accessible introduction to understanding the foundations (and contradictions) at the intersection of these two topics. It distills the historical, political, sociological, and scientific factors influenci ER -