A national nutrition surveillance system is an essential instrument for the detection of nutrition and nutrition-related health problems that can assist on policy implementation. The role of nutritional surveillance in detecting trends of nutritional problems and predicting their risks has become more important as its strong scientifically based method and evidences may provide insights on chro...

background: lack of nutritional knowledge is one of the most important reasons of nutritional problems and consequently im­proper practice, which can lead to several complications. this study has been designed in order to compare knowledge, at­ti­tude and practices of the urban and rural households regarding iron deficiency anemia (ida) in boushehr, golestan and sis­tan & balouchestan provinces...

background and objective: malnutrition is a very common clinical disorder risk factor in elderly people, which is not diagnosed in most cases and, therefore, remains untreated. the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of malnutrition in free-living elderly people and its relationship with socioeconomic factors (sef) in the elderly subjects in khorasan razavi province, iran. m...

OBJECTIVES To determine the oral status of elderly residents in nursing homes (NH) and long term care wards (LT) and to describe associations between oral status and nutritional status among institutionalized elderly residents. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional study. SETTING All elderly residents in all NH and LT in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. PARTICIPANTS The study included 2036...