Community Nutrition in Action: An Entrepreneurial Approach » (5th Edition)

Dr. Marie A. Boyle is Adjunct Professor and former Director of the Graduate Program in Nutrition at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ, and is editor of the new "Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition" for Haworth Press. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Southern Maine, and received her MS and PhD in Nutrition from Florida State University. Marie Boyle is the author of two successful texts, PERSONAL NUTRITION, 6th Edition, coauthored with Sara Long (Thomson, 2007), and C

Dr. David H. Holben is Associate Professor and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics at Ohio University. He completed a B.S. in Dietetics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a dietetic internship at Detroit's Harper Hospital, a MA in Food Science and Nutrition/Food Service Management at Wayne State University, and both a MS and Ph.D. in Human Nutrition from The Ohio State University. He is the co-author of COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION: AN ENTREPRENEURIAL APPROACH, Fifth Edition (Cengage, 2010) and numerous scholarly works related to food security and hunger.

COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION, FIFTH EDITION introduces the program planning, policies, resources, and nutrition issues specific to community nutrition and provides an understanding of creating and implementing nutrition programs from various constituencies (elderly populations, children, impoverished populations, college students, etc.). Successful practitioners in community nutrition have proven to have a mind and skill set that opens them up to new ideas and ventures. Incorporating an entrepreneurial approach, this book helps readers learn how to take risks, try new technologies, and use fresh approaches to improving the public's nutrition and health status. The book also delivers the core material important to those who will be active in solving community nutritional and health problems, including program delivery, nutrition education, nutrition assessment, and planning nutrition interventions.