Culture, Environment, and Food to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency (International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries - INFDC, 1997, 208 pages): Part IV. Understanding Vitamin A deficieny in the community: 9. The contexts of culture, environment, and food: (introductory text...)

Culture, Environment, and Food to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency (International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries - INFDC, 1997, 208 pages)

Part IV. Understanding Vitamin A deficieny in the community

9. The contexts of culture, environment, and food

		*(introductory text...)*
		Overview
		Overall performance of the protocol
		Keys to finding local community food sources to prevent Vitamin A deficiency: What foods are available and how much vitamin a do they contain?
		Keys to understanding consumption patterns of vulnerable groups
		Keys to beliefs and perceptions about food
		Keys to cultural, ecological and socioeconomic factors that constrain consumption of Vitamin A-rich food and prevention of deficiency
		Keys to explanations and understandings of Vitamin A deficiency symptoms
		Looking to the next steps: From ethnography to intervention design

Harriet V. Kuhnlein and Gretel H. Pelto