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Public Policy and Renal Nutrition Practice: Past, Present, and Future

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The heart of professional advancement is recognition and inclusion in public policies that support patient access to appropriate care. Nearly all areas of nutrition and dietetics practice are touched in some way by public policy, but none as significantly as the area of renal nutrition.

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  1. Mendham, NJ, USA

    Mary H. Hager Ph.D., M.S.

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  1. Dept. Primary Care, University of Medicine & Dentistry, New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey, USA

    Laura D. Byham-Gray

  2. Dept. Nutrition, Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, New York, USA

    Jerrilynn D. Burrowes

  3. Div. Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Glenn M. Chertow

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Hager, M.H. (2014). Public Policy and Renal Nutrition Practice: Past, Present, and Future. In: Byham-Gray, L., Burrowes, J., Chertow, G. (eds) Nutrition in Kidney Disease. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-685-6_22

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