NS 4500 - Public Health Nutrition

Spring. 2 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: NS 1150. Students must attend first lec or placement is forfeited.

K. Rasmussen.

Public health nutrition is the major professional career track for nutritionists outside of dietetics. It deals with efforts to improve the diets and nutritional status of whole populations by working at the community, state, and national levels. Course helps prepare students to work in public health nutrition by describing methods used in the assessment of nutrition problems, the development of nutrition-related policies, and the delivery of health, nutrition, and food assistance programs.