A people's perspective in nutrition education.
Efforts to combat malnutrition through community education are often unsuccessful, due to inadequate planning and poor understanding of target populations. In Thailand, a child growth and development project is researching and using models of local attitudes to enhance programme planning. Results indicate that nutrition education programmes can benefit from awareness that community members justify their nutritional and health behaviours according to indigenous rather than academic models.
Yoddumnern-Attig
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Institute for Population, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.
Attig
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Kanungsukkasem
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011247:Pregnancy; D016730:Program Development; D013785:Thailand