Publications by authors named "Harrison Carter"

Bending the curve of biodiversity loss requires the business and financial sectors to disclose and reduce their biodiversity impacts and help fund nature recovery. This has sparked interest in developing generalizable, standardized measurements of biodiversity-essentially a 'unit of nature'. We examine how such units are defined in the rapidly growing voluntary biodiversity credits market and present a framework exploring how biodiversity is quantified, how delivery of positive outcomes is detected and attributed to the investment and how the number of credits issued is adjusted to account for uncertainties.

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Background: Malnutrition is a global emergency, creating an overlapping burden on individual, public and economic health. The double burden of malnutrition affects approximately 2.3 billion adults worldwide.

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Background: In Kolkata (India), there are high rates of malnourished children (45.9%) under the age of three, impacting growth, organ development, function, and cognition. Mothers have a major role to play during this crucial development stage, with research showing nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of mothers are important determinants of childhood malnutrition.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to understand the opinions of UK medical students and doctors about the role of nutrition in medical education and practice, gathering data from surveys conducted between 2015 and 2018.
  • Results showed that while over 90% of participants recognized the importance of nutrition in health, many felt their training in this area was inadequate, with more than 70% reporting less than 2 hours of nutrition education.
  • There is a clear need for enhanced nutrition education in medical training, as many doctors lack confidence in their nutritional knowledge and prefer to seek specialist advice rather than tackle nutritional issues themselves.
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Nutrition is an important component of public health and health care, including in education and research, and in the areas of policy and practice. This statement was the overarching message during the third annual International Summit on Medical Nutrition Education and Research, held at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in August 2017. This summit encouraged attendees to think more broadly about the impact of nutrition policy on health and communities, including the need to visualize the complete food system from "pre-farm to post-fork.

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