Nutrition Focus Newsletter
Nutrition Focus is a bimonthly newsletter
that focuses on nutritional challenges of children with special
health care needs and their families. The newsletter is written
for health care providers and others who serve children with special
health care needs. The goal of the newsletter is to increase awareness
of nutrition and share useful assessment and intervention strategies
within the health care community.
It is estimated that 40% of all children
with special health care needs may be at risk for nutrition problems.
If these problems are addressed early by qualified health professionals,
the outcomes are appropriate growth, improved health status, fewer
hospitalizations and cost savings in overall health care expenditures.
Nutrition Focus is a vehicle for disseminating timely, evidence-based
and practical information that allows health care providers to effectively
address the nutritional issues of children with special health care
needs.
Each article highlights a specific disorder
or nutrition concern and offers practical suggestions and guidance
for families and health care professionals. Sample topics include
- Pediatric formula update
- Intrauterine growth retardation and small
for gestational age - Nutrition Management
- Homemade blenderized tube feedings
- Eating/feeding problems of children
- Dietary Reference Intakes - case studies
for children with special health care needs
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
- Transition for adolecents with special
health care needs to adult health care and nutrition services
Subscribers who are registered dietitians
can also purchase a membership to the Pediatric Nutrition Consultation
Online Listserve. The listserve provides evidence-based answers
to posted questions using nutritionists and dietitians from CHDD
and Seattle’s Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical
Center as consultants.
A one-year subscription (six issues) is
$36, and the subscription plus listserve is $56. International/Canadian
subscriptions are $45 in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank, and $65
with listserv. No partial-year subscriptions are accepted. Back
issues are available, with pricing based on number of copies ordered.
Orders must be prepaid. Our IRS number is 91-6001537.
Order
Form and List of Back Issues
Or, send your name, agency or institution,
address, phone number, and a check payable to the University of
Washington to:
Sharon Feucht, MS, RD
Editor, Nutrition Focus
CHDD, University of Washington
BOX 357920
Seattle, WA 98195-7920
More Information
Assuring
Pediatric Nutrition Care in the Community
Nutrition
for Children With Special Health Care Needs in Washington State
website
CHDD
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