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Nutrition and Primary Health Care Services

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Nutrition is at the heart of effective primary health care, especially for the physiologically vulnerable (pregnant and lactating mothers and their young children), and for the culturally or economically disadvantaged, as with groups regarded as socially inferior and for confused new slumdwellers. The level of nutritional status is any community depends on many factors which can be summarized in the “community nutrition level” (CNL) equation (Fig. 1).

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  1. Prof. of Pub. Health & of Pediat., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    Derrick B. Jelliffe M.D.

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  1. Brazilian Nutrition Society, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Walter Santos , Nabuco Lopes , J. J. Barbosa  & Dagoberto Chaves , ,  & 

  2. National Food and Nutrition Institute and Associação Brasiliense de Nutrologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    José Carlos Valente

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Jelliffe, D.B. (1980). Nutrition and Primary Health Care Services. In: Santos, W., Lopes, N., Barbosa, J.J., Chaves, D., Valente, J.C. (eds) Nutritional Biochemistry and Pathology. Nutrition and Food Science, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1349-7_89

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