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Infant Health Starts Before Conception

Exploring Health

The Role of Nutrition in Fetal Development and Beyond Development from fetus to child to adult depends on maternal nutrition and health long before conception. This is a time period of enormous potential, but also enormous vulnerability, says Melissa Young, PhD, associate professor of global health at Emory University.

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Epidemiology Terms: A Glossary of Epidemiological Words

Gideon

Whether you are a student of nursing, health sciences, public health, or another specialty, you may be interested in expanding your knowledge of epidemiology. In our ever-shrinking world, an emerging disease can turn from a small outbreak in one country to a global pandemic in a few weeks.