University of Leeds - Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health
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Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health at FutureLearn Overview
Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health
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Duration | 3 weeks |
Total fee | ₹8,814 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health at FutureLearn Highlights
Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health
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- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
Engage with current research into developing sustainable and innovative approaches to meeting global nutrient needs.
Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health at FutureLearn Course details
Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health
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- On this three week course, you will learn some of the challenges of ensuring food security faced by researchers, policymakers and individuals worldwide.
- You will explore how large-scale change (industrialisation, globalisation, population growth and climate change) affects food safety and understand the consequences for the worlds health and nutrition.
- Using examples from current research, you will explore common and emerging global food safety issues.
- You will investigate some well- documented food scandals and scares as well as hidden or chronic exposures to contaminated food before you discover and discover innovations designed to counter food safety risks.
- As you consider whose responsibility it is to maintain the safety of our food, you will learn the biological function of different nutrients and examine the global impact of nutrient deficiency and malnutrition.
- You will also explore global nutrition challenges and ways of reducing the burden of malnutrition and nutrition deficiencies. You will consider the difficulties in meeting macronutrient and micronutrient requirements and explore research into developing sustainable responses to the worlds nutritional needs.
- This course draws from innovative research into food safety and nutrition conducted by the University of Leeds, Jiangsu University in China, and The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Tanzania.
Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health at FutureLearn Curriculum
Food Safety and Nutrition: A Global Approach to Public Health
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Introducing global food security: Safety and nutrition
Welcome
How do we keep the world?s food safe?
How do we define nutrients and nutrient requirements?
How are food safety and nutrition connected?
Summary
Global food safety: Challenges and solutions
About Week 2
What are the global challenges to food safety?
Global food scares and scandals
Hidden global challenges and chronic exposures
Summary
Global nutrition: Challenges and solutions
Welcome to Week 3
What are the global challenges in food and health?
Macronutrients: A question of quality and balance
Micronutrient deficiency: Solutions to a global challenge
Summary
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