Nutritional Status Indicators of Low-Income Populations. Reprints from theJournal of Nutrition

摘要

In 1988 the Public Health Service joined with the American Institute of Nutrition(AIN) in an agreement to examine state-of-the-art techniques for measuring nutritional status and to make recommendations for a core set of nutritional status indicators for low-income populations. A workshop, several symposia, and an AIN multidisciplinary task force were planned for and carried out. The collected reports resulting from these activities have been compiled into a final report. The information provided covers such topics as: (1) identifying and measuring the prevalence of undernutrition in the U.S.; (2) monitoring nutrition and assessing nutrition status; (3) developing core indicators of nutrition status for hard-to-sample populations; and (4) the use of nutritional status information in the formation of public policy. For each of these areas, the report gives an overview or introduction and discussions of several sub-topics.