Maria A Lepowsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 7253302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria A Lepowsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lepowsky |
| SIGNATURE | LEPOWSKY M A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Food taboos, malaria and dietary change
Despite seemingly abundant food resources, child malnutrition is prevalent on Vanatinai (Sudest Island), Papua New Guinea according to government surveys. Cultural adaptations to new technology, new cultigens, and new political systems have resulted in changes in subsistence strategies from a greater reliance on the collection of wild foods to a heavy emphasis on cultivation of starchy tubers. These may have negatively affected the nutritional st…
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Food taboos, malaria and dietary change
Despite seemingly abundant food resources, child malnutrition is prevalent on Vanatinai (Sudest Island), Papua New Guinea according to government surveys. Cultural adaptations to new technology, new cultigens, and new political systems have resulted in changes in subsistence strategies from a greater reliance on the collection of wild foods to a heavy emphasis on cultivation of starchy tubers. These may have negatively affected the nutritional st…
Agriculture (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (1 work) · Ecology (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Environmental health (1 work) · Ethnology (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · Immunology (1 work)