90th Anniversary Commentary: Diet Quality Indexes in Nutritional Epidemiology Inform Dietary Guidance and Public Health

The 90th anniversary of Andrija Štampar School of Public Health

Improving metadata quality assessment in public health and epidemiology

The increase in generation of, and access to, public health and epidemiology data necessitates robust mechanisms to produce data documentation metadata. Metadata often describes research data and the process through which the data was collected. Secondary use of clinical data sourced from electronic health records can greatly benefit from access to metadata and other such documentation. However...

Dietary behaviour changes to improve nutritional quality and health outcomes☆

This narrative review examines the changes required in dietary behaviours to address the current global burden of disease resulting from diet-associated cardiometabolic dysfunction. Beginning with known relationships between nutritional factors and health outcomes, the review identifies a number of problems with current dietary behaviours, using examples from the Australian context. Implication...

Diet quality and major chronic disease risk in men and women: moving toward improved dietary guidance.

BACKGROUND Adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, measured with the US Department of Agriculture Healthy Eating Index (HEI), was associated with only a small reduction in major chronic disease risk. Research suggests that greater reductions in risk are possible with more specific guidance. OBJECTIVE We evaluated whether 2 alternate measures of diet quality, the Alternate Healthy E...

Commentary: the rough world of nutritional epidemiology: does dietary fibre prevent large bowel cancer?

contradictory messages, so it can be comforting to cling to advice that appears constant. One concept on which the nutritional cognoscenti are united is the value of eating a diet rich in fibre.' 1 This quote from a doctor writing in a British broadsheet newspaper illustrates many of the problems faced by nutritional epidemiologists and health practitioners who try to determine the health damag...