NUTR 5300
Nutrition across the Life Span (3)
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of diet and nutrition needs and factors impacting nutritional status during significant phases of the lifespan from preconception to infancy, childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, adulthood, and geriatrics. Particular emphasis is placed on the biological foundations of nutritional needs during each stage of the lifespan to target optimal growth, disease prevention, and overall health and well-being and identify malnutrition consequences. This course also considers the critical evaluation of nutrition information with a particular focus on existing controversies, the role of diet and nutrition in chronic disease development and prevention, and how environmental factors and lifestyle choices may influence nutritional needs and requirements across the lifespan.
NUTR 5300 is a required course for M.P.H. students in the public health nutrition concentration. Interested students in other concentrations require special permission to register for this course. This course is offered through Rutgers School of Health Professions.
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NUTR 5513
Global and Public Health Nutrition (3)
Current and emerging issues in global and public health nutrition are debated and students are engaged in discussions to address populations of diverse cultures and global nutrition health and nutrition policy. Students learn to recognize how determinants of health, health disparities, availability of resources, and accessibility influence the nutrition status of communities and state, country and regional programs. Program planning and population needs assessments are addressed. Course topics include an overview of global and US public health nutrition goals, malnutrition around the globe, nutrition surveillance systems and interventions, practices and processes of local and global food markets, global food systems and legislative and regulatory policies. An experimental component in global and public health at the local or global level is included.
NUTR 5513 is a required course for M.P.H. students in the public health nutrition concentration. Interested students in other concentrations require special permission to register for this course. This course is offered through Rutgers School of Health Professions.
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NUTR 6490
Nutritional Epidemiology (3)
This course is designed to provide graduate students with an overview of nutritional epidemiology methods. Research has established links between diet and nutrition and chronic disease however these relationships are complex and affected not only by individual diet and lifestyle factors, but social and political factors as well. The purpose of this course is to examine methods used in nutritional epidemiological studies, and to review the current state of research into the causes, patterns and amelioration of nutrition-related diseases.
NUTR 6490 is a required course for M.P.H. students in the public health nutrition concentration. Interested students in other concentrations require special permission to register for this course. This course is offered through Rutgers School of Health Professions.
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