Major nutritional challenges in under-resourced and developing societies, including malnutrition, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and the impact of urbanisation on the nutritional health of communities and countries in transition.
| Paper title | Global Nutrition and Health |
|---|---|
| Paper code | HUNT346 |
| Subject | Human Nutrition |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD) | $1,141.35 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- HUNT 241, HUNT 243
- Restriction
- HUNT 223
- Schedule C
- Science
- Contact
- human-nutrition@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
- View more information on the Department of Human Nutrition's website
- Teaching staff
- Paper Structure
Lectures will provide students with a broad knowledge of the nutritional challenges in low- and middle-income countries and allow students to acquire an in-depth understanding of the impact of suboptimal nutrition on health status in low-resource settings.
Tutorials will provide opportunities for students to become familiar with the interdisciplinary nature of nutritional problems from food systems, climate change, economic and policy sciences, human, social and health sciences.
- Teaching Arrangements
Two lectures per week and one weekly tutorial session.
Attendance at lectures and tutorials is compulsory.
- Textbooks
The majority of reading material will be taken from recent scientific journals and all readings will be provided on Blackboard.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding,
Ethics, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
By the end of HUNT 346 students will be able to:
- Understand and be able to describe the major nutritional problems that influence the health, survival, and developmental capacity of populations globally
- Critically analyse the double burden of over- and under-nutrition in indigenous and populations undergoing nutrition transition
- Compare and evaluate possible interventions implemented at the household, community, national, and international levels to prevent and treat malnutrition
- Critically examine the challenges of implementing, evaluating, scaling and sustainability of malnutrition prevention programs and interventions
- Integrate learning throughout the course to identify and evaluate malnutrition programs and interventions
