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The Nutrition Transition and Its Relationship to Demographic Change

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Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries

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Scientists have long recognized the importance of the demographic and epidemiological transitions in higher-income countries and more recently have understood that similar sets of broad-based changes are occurring in lower-income countries. What has not been recognized is that concurrent changes are occurring in nutrition with equally important resource allocation implications for many low-income countries. This chapter provides a heuristic framework that accommodates the dynamic nature of nutrition.1

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Popkin, B.M. (2001). The Nutrition Transition and Its Relationship to Demographic Change. In: Semba, R.D., Bloem, M.W. (eds) Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries. Nutrition ◊ and ◊ Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-225-8_17

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