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Commentary. Making public health nutrition relevant to evidence-based action

Commentary. Making public health nutrition relevant to evidence-based action
Commentary. Making public health nutrition relevant to evidence-based action
Public health nutrition enjoyed many breakthroughs in the
20th century – from the discovery of vitamins and the
metabolic roles of some 60 macro- and micronutrients, to
the effects of maternal and childhood diet on health over
the life course. Moreover, the food shortages in the UK that
were experienced during World War II gave the first
opportunity to show that nutritional science could make a
valuable contribution to public policy. However, public
health nutrition is now facing the challenge of deriving
recommendations based on systematically evaluated
evidence; that is, the new concept of evidence-based
nutrition. This challenge was foreseen by John Garrow
almost 10 years ago in his lucid editorial proposing the
formation of meta-analysis ‘clubs’1.
1368-9800
1297-1299
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Thorogood, M.
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Margetts, B.M.
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Hooper, L.
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Dowler, E.
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Hewitt, G.
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Robertson, A.
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Margetts, B.M.
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Brunner, E., Rayner, M., Thorogood, M., Margetts, B.M., Hooper, L., Summerbell, C., Dowler, E., Hewitt, G., Robertson, A. and Wiseman, M. (2001) Commentary. Making public health nutrition relevant to evidence-based action. Public Health Nutrition, 4 (6), 1297-1299. (doi:10.1079/PHN2001272).

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Abstract

Public health nutrition enjoyed many breakthroughs in the
20th century – from the discovery of vitamins and the
metabolic roles of some 60 macro- and micronutrients, to
the effects of maternal and childhood diet on health over
the life course. Moreover, the food shortages in the UK that
were experienced during World War II gave the first
opportunity to show that nutritional science could make a
valuable contribution to public policy. However, public
health nutrition is now facing the challenge of deriving
recommendations based on systematically evaluated
evidence; that is, the new concept of evidence-based
nutrition. This challenge was foreseen by John Garrow
almost 10 years ago in his lucid editorial proposing the
formation of meta-analysis ‘clubs’1.

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Published date: 2001

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Local EPrints ID: 25284
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/25284
ISSN: 1368-9800
PURE UUID: 9241dfa1-8916-46e3-a36a-95e347177c46

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Date deposited: 10 Apr 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:01

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Author: E. Brunner
Author: M. Rayner
Author: M. Thorogood
Author: B.M. Margetts
Author: L. Hooper
Author: C. Summerbell
Author: E. Dowler
Author: G. Hewitt
Author: A. Robertson
Author: M. Wiseman

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