Practical Public Health Nutrition -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Part 1: Introduction and context -- Chapter 1: The big picture: The context for a textbook on public health nutrition practice -- Why develop a public health nutrition textbook? -- Malnutrition is still the main game -- Innovative solutions are needed -- Surely you don't mean these challenges can be found in rich countries like mine? -- Level of influence -- Practice informed by a public health approach -- First, work to understand the causes, by looking upstream -- Practitioners and politics -- The philosophy underpinning this book -- Building capacity for effective public health nutrition action -- Chapter 2: Defining public health nutrition as a field of practice -- Introduction -- Modes of nutrition practice -- Definitions of public health nutrition -- An emphasis on the prevention of food and nutrition problems -- The core functions of the PHN workforce -- Competencies for PHN practice -- Professionalism and PHN practice -- Chapter 3: A framework for public health nutrition practice -- Introduction -- A socio-ecological approach to practice -- The PHN practice cycle -- Recognising the importance of capacity building as a discrete strategy and as an approach to practice -- Why make things more complicated and introduce a new framework? -- A bi-cyclic framework for public health nutrition practice -- Part 2: Intelligence -- Chapter 4: Step 1: Community engagement and analysis -- Introduction -- What is a community? -- Why community engagement? -- Community development constructs -- Community development - a process or an outcome? -- Building community capital (and capacity) -- Building capacity via 'bottom-up' practice -- Community analysis -- Chapter 5: Step 2: Problem analysis -- Introduction -- Public health intelligence -- What is problem analysis?.

Types of need -- Conducting a problem analysis -- Different methodological approaches to gather intelligence for problem assessment -- Applying the intelligence and analysis results -- Chapter 6: Step 3: Stakeholder analysis and engagement -- Introduction -- Why stakeholder engagement? -- Stakeholder analysis -- Considerations for stakeholder analysis -- Conducting the stakeholder analysis -- Organising and presenting stakeholder analysis data -- Stakeholder engagement -- Engaging stakeholders in decision-making -- Chapter 7: Step 4: Determinant analysis -- Introduction -- Analysing determinants -- Characterising determinants by their effect -- Characterising determinants by the type of causal link -- Characterising determinants by level -- Determinant interaction and causal pathways -- Diagrammatic illustration of determinant analysis -- Chapter 8: Step 5: Capacity analysis -- Introduction -- What is capacity? -- A framework for capacity building practice -- Capacity assessment for capacity building -- Challenges in measuring capacity -- Selecting tools for capacity analysis -- Tools and strategies for analysing capacity -- Presenting capacity analysis data -- Chapter 9: Step 6: Mandates for public health nutrition action -- Introduction -- Mandates for action - the policy context -- Policy development - an overview -- The challenge of competing policy agendas -- National food and nutrition policies -- Mandates for action - direct relevance to PHN practice -- Chapter 10: Step 7: Intervention research and strategy options -- Introduction -- Strategic frameworks for health promotion -- Determinants as leverage points for intervention -- Levels of intervention -- Settings as a focus for intervention -- Target groups as a focus for intervention -- Intervention research: learning from earlier work -- Abstracting intelligence from intervention research.

Chapter 11: Step 8: Risk assessment and strategy prioritisation -- Introduction -- Assessing risks and benefits -- Types of risks and benefits -- Strategy prioritisation -- Challenges and dilemmas in strategy prioritisation -- Methods for strategy prioritisation -- Part 3: Action -- Chapter 12: Step 9: Writing action statements -- Introduction -- Intervention planning -- Action statements -- Linking problem and determinant analysis to action statements -- Writing intervention goals -- Writing intervention objectives -- Chapter 13: Step 10: Logic modelling -- Introduction -- What is a logic model? -- Types of logic model -- Logic model elements -- Logic modelling in PHN practice -- Developing a logic model -- Key questions for reviewing logic models -- Chapter 14: Step 11: Implementation and evaluation planning -- Introduction -- Engaging stakeholders in intervention and evaluation planning -- Planning for intervention implementation -- Developing work package plans -- Work scheduling − developing a Gantt chart -- Developing intervention budgets -- Evaluation planning -- Levels of evaluation -- Developing evaluation indicators and plans -- Chapter 15: Step 12: Managing implementation -- Introduction -- Types of PHN intervention implementation -- Governance -- Managing risk -- Partnership satisfaction -- Evaluability assessment -- Part 4: Evaluation -- Chapter 16: Step 13: Process evaluation -- Introduction -- Evaluation - a brief overview -- Linking evaluation to planning -- Qualitative and quantitative approaches to evaluation -- Levels of evaluation -- Process evaluation -- Elements of process evaluation -- Methods for conducting process evaluation -- Process evaluation indicators -- Process evaluation in practice - some published examples -- Chapter 17: Step 14: Impact and outcome evaluation -- Introduction.

Impact and outcome evaluation - what is the difference? -- When to evaluate? -- Key measures of impact and outcome evaluation -- Reliability and validity in evaluation -- Sampling and data analysis -- Evaluation design -- Chapter 18: Step 15: Evaluating capacity gains -- Introduction -- Challenges in measuring capacity -- Pre- and post-intervention comparisons -- Strategies to enhance the trustworthiness of capacity evaluation -- Visual presentations of capacity evaluations -- Chapter 19: Step 16: Economic evaluation -- Introduction -- Costs and consequences in health care -- Characteristics of economic evaluation -- Types of economic evaluation -- Conducting an economic evaluation -- Efficiency vs. equity -- Chapter 20: Step 17: Reflective practice and valorisation -- Introduction -- What is reflective practice? -- Transformatory learning and reflective practice -- Improving practice through reflection -- Stages of reflective practice -- Methods of reflective practice -- Tools for reflective practice -- What is valorisation? -- Targets of valorisation -- Methods of valorisation -- Presenting intervention results -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Intervention plan template -- Appendix 2: Capacity building analysis tool -- References -- Index.