Infant and Young Child Feeding: Model Chapter for Textbooks for Medical Students and Allied Health Professionals

Cover
 Contents
 Plates
 Figures, Maps, and Tables
 Foreword
 Notes
 Introduction: The Creation of Global Issues
 Chapter 1: Population
 The Changing Population of the World
 Causes of the Population Explosion
 How Population Growth Affects Development
 Too rapid
 Too slow
 An aging population and low birth rates
 International conferences on population
 How Development Affects Population Growth
 Demographic transition
 Factors lowering birth rates
 Governmental Population Policies
 Controlling growth
 Promoting growth
 The Future
 The growth of the worldâ#x80
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s population. The carrying capacity of the earthOptimum size of the earthâ#x80
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s population
 Population-related problems in our future
 Conclusions
 Notes
 Further Reading
 Chapter 2: Wealth and Poverty
 The Millennium Development Goals
 Development Assistance and Foreign Aid
 The Market Approach
 The State Approach
 The Civil Society Approach
 Geography and Wealth, Geography and Poverty
 Globalization
 Positive aspects
 Negative aspects
 An evaluation
 Conclusions
 Notes
 Further Reading
 Chapter 3: Food
 World Food Production
 How Many Are Hungry?
 Causes of World Hunger
 How Food Affects Development. How Development Affects FoodThe production of food
 The loss of food
 The type of food
 The Green Revolution
 Fertilizers
 Pesticides
 Irrigation
 The future
 Governmental Food Policies
 Future Food Supplies
 Climate
 Arable land
 Energy costs
 Alternative/sustainable/organic agriculture
 Biotechnology
 Fishing and aquaculture
 Future food production
 Conclusions
 Notes
 Further Reading
 Chapter 4: Energy
 The Energy Crisis
 Responses by Governments to the Energy Crisis
 The United States
 Western Europe
 Japan
 China. The Effect of the Energy Crisis on the Development Plans of Less Developed NationsThe Relationship between Energy Use and Development
 A shift in types of energy
 Increased use
 The decoupling of energy consumption and economic growth
 Climate Change
 The evidence
 Probable effects
 Uncertainties
 What is being done at present?
 What more can be done?
 The Energy Transition
 Nonrenewable energy sources
 Renewable energy sources
 Conservation/energy efficiency
 Nuclear Power: A Case Study
 The potential and the peril
 The choice
 Conclusions
 Notes
 Further Reading
 Chapter 5: The Environment. The AwakeningThe Air
 Smog
 Airborne lead
 Acid rain
 Ozone depletion
 Climate change (global warming)
 The Water
 The Land
 Solid wastes
 Toxic wastes
 Governmental and industrial responses to the waste problem
 Deforestation
 The Workplace and the Home
 Cancer
 Pesticides
 Chemicals
 The Use of Minerals
 Resource efficiency
 Recycling
 Substitution
 Reducing needs
 Overdevelopment
 The Extinction of Species
 The Extinction of Cultures
 Environmental Politics
 Conclusions
 Notes
 Further Reading
 Chapter 6: Technology
 Benefits of Technology. The Tragedy of the Commons and the Role of Technology â#x80
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 Short-Term Benefits Versus Long-Term Costs.