This article describes an approach to assessing infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices using small-sample surveys which was developed jointly by VALID International; CONCERN Worldwide; Save the Children; the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation; the Niger National Institute of Statistics; the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI); the Sudanese Federal Mini...

Bate et al [1] present stimulating work on the seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in the United States during 2 periods, 1988–1994 and 1999–2004, which showed that the prevalence of CMV infection remained stable between these 2 periods. Such studies are rare, and many countries clearly lack epidemiologic data. The past decade has seen numerous studies of the management and consequences of ...

There are few practical examples of the use of RRA in the field of health and nutrition described in the literature. This paper describes the use of wealth ranking as part of rapid nutritional assessments undertaken in Darfur by an Oxfam nutrition team led by myself. The assessments were unique in approach as they combined two complementary techniques; wealth ranking (Grandin, 1988) and measure...

Most of the statistics needed for national planning are derived from large scale sample surveys with households as reporting units both in the developed and developing countries. Examples of these surveys are Income and Expenditure, Employment, Food consumption and Nutrition, Agriculture, Health, Education, Establishment, etc. The required information on these topics is obtained from the select...

1 Mason JB. Lessons on nutrition of displaced people. J Nutr 2002;132:2096S–2103S. 2 World Health Organization (WHO). Management of Nutrition in Major Emergencies. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2000. 3 World Health Organization (WHO). Physical status: the use and interpretation of anthropometry. Report of a WHO expert committee. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1995. 4 University of Nair...

The nutrition section of the Public Health Department of H. E. H. the Nizam's Dominions undertook to do nutrition surveys and to ascertain the dietary habits, existence of deficiency diseases and physical development of the people. In this paper an attempt is made to find out standards of nutritional status and to ascertain the incidence of malnutrition and deficiency diseases amongst children....

In Hong Kong, the chronic diseases that lead to mortality and morbidity, and contribute to disability include cardiovascular diseases, cancer, hypertension, osteoporosis, and diabetes mellitus. The role of nutrition as a risk factor for the development of these diseases has been described elsewhere. For the older population, adequate nutrition is important to maintain health, particularly with ...

INTRODUCTION Researchers believe that nutrition environments contribute to obesity and may explain some health disparities. The Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys (NEMS) are valid and reliable observational measures of the nutrition environment. This article describes the dissemination of the measures, including the development, implementation, and evaluation of training workshops, and a fo...

Consistent information on the non-milk extrinsic sugars (NMES) content of foods and the NMES intake by the population is required in order to allow comparisons between dietary surveys. A critical appraisal of methods of NMES estimation was conducted to investigate whether the different published methods for estimating the NMES content of foods lead to significantly different values for the diet...