Telah muncul kesadaran bahwa problem gizi akan berdampak pada kesehatan masyarakat melibatkan banyak faktor penyebab. Permasalahan gizi di tingkat keluarga dan masyarakat seringkali bersifat komplek. Faktor ketidaktahuan, sosial budaya, tingkat ekonomi masyarakat sangat menentukan apakah gizi dapat diakses dan selanjutnya dikonsumsi dengan kualitas dan kuantitas yang cukup. rn
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rnIndonesia saat ini tengah mengalami double burden di bidang gizi dan kesehatan. Di satu sisi penyakit akibat kekurangan gizi belum sepenuhnya dapat diatasi, sementara disisi lain telah menuai ancaman kesehatan akibat gizi lebih. Bila pola makan dengan gizi seimbang tidak mampu diterapkan dalam suatu keluarga karena ketidaktahuan maka double burde ini akan tetap sulit diatasi.
Many people will not identify their activities as public health. What links these and similar activities together is improving the health of populations or communities. Such a broad range of activities illustrates that the factors which influence health are complex and wide-ranging. Any Attempt to understand and change them must involve many disciplines, and the study of public health draws on the expertise of people from a variety of backgrounds. Statistics, psychology, sociology, microbiology, politics and management are some of the specialities which contribute to the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and the application of this study to the control of health problems.
Many people will not identify their activities as public health. What links these and similar activities together is improving the health of populations or communities. Such a broad range of activities illustrates that the factors which influence health are complex and wide-ranging. Any Attempt to understand and change them must involve many disciplines, and the study of public health draws on the expertise of people from a variety of backgrounds. Statistics, psychology, sociology, microbiology, politics and management are some of the specialities which contribute to the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and the application of this study to the control of health problems.