The NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health: A Consolidated Review of Global Efforts Towards Medical and Healthcare-Related Nutrition Education.

The NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health: A Consolidated Review of Global Efforts Towards Medical and Healthcare-Related Nutrition Education. Nestle Nutr Inst Workshop Ser. 2019;92:143-150 Authors: Ray S Abstract Whilst there is much focus on applying resources to generate evidence from human nutrition research, whether these involve experiment, observation or intervention, there is considerably little investment in the development and evaluation of effective approaches to apply the available knowledge base. Furthermore, when translating nutrition knowledge to the population at large, there are barriers to implementation, retention, and sustained impact, often due to largely unregulated public information on nutrition causing significant confusion and conflict. Healthcare professionals, therefore, have a key role in becoming reliable knowledge brokers, translating nutrition science to clinical or public health practice. However, with the exception of dietitians, who are relatively few in number, other segments of the healthcare workforce receive little or relatively inconsistent training in practice-ready aspects of nutrition. Over the past decade, the NNEdPro Global Centre in Cambridge (www.nnedpro.org.uk) has been working as a partnership between doctors, dietitians, nutritionists and others, both within and across borders to assess practice gaps affecting patients and the public. This is typically followed by taking a st...
Source: Nestlee Nutrition Institute Workshop Series - Category: Nutrition Tags: Nestle Nutr Inst Workshop Ser Source Type: research