National nutrition surveillance
1978
Habicht, Jean-Pierre | Lane, J.Michael | McDowell, Arthur J.
Extract: National Nutrition Surveillance includes nutritional assessment surveys to ascertain the extent of malnutrition in populations, to identify possible causes, to establish baseline data for monitoring nutrition, and to select mechanisms for nutrition surveillance. Nutritional surveillance in the restricted sense not only identifies malnutrition but is administratively organized to intervene rapidly. National Nutrition Surveillance depends on metabolic and clinical research to decide on its priorities. This research indicates that malnutrition involves more than under nutrition, and greater emphasis should be given in National Nutrition Surveillance to this wider context of malnutrition. The results will in turn help set priorities for basic and applied research in nutrition.
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