Nutrition and Infectious Diseases
Item
Title
Nutrition and
Infectious
Diseases
Infectious
Diseases
Description
The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the World Health Organization
monograph titled Interactions of Nutrition and Infection by the late Nevin
Scrimshaw, Carl Taylor, and John Gordon. This groundbreaking work by
three pioneers of public health was the frst scientifc compilation to describe
the synergistic relationship between an individual’s nutritional state and risk
of infectious diseases in the context of the high burden of under-fve child
mortality prevalent in those days.
monograph titled Interactions of Nutrition and Infection by the late Nevin
Scrimshaw, Carl Taylor, and John Gordon. This groundbreaking work by
three pioneers of public health was the frst scientifc compilation to describe
the synergistic relationship between an individual’s nutritional state and risk
of infectious diseases in the context of the high burden of under-fve child
mortality prevalent in those days.