Under-Nutrition in India – A Forgotten National Nutrition Policy without a National Programme

Evaluation of national food and nutrition policy in Albania

INTRODUCTION The paper aims to describe the progress that has been made in the implementation of the Albanian food and nutrition policy since 2003, so as to consider its impacts to date, and to identify strategic priorities/critical areas and priorities for Albania's future policy on improving the national food and nutrition situation. METHODS In 2011-2012, an expert group applied an intersec...

A national food and nutrition survey project.

Comparison of Haitian children in a nutrition intervention programme with children in the Haitian national nutrition survey.

Weight-for-height and height-for-age data were compared for preschool-age Haitian children enrolled in a community health and nutrition intervention program and children measured in the Haiti national nutrition survey of 1978. Cross-sections of the longitudinal data of the intervention program corresponding to the season when the national survey was conducted (May-September) were chosen for th...

Evaluation of National Nutrition Programmes

Conclusions from the Mexican National Nutrition Survey 1999: translating results into nutrition policy.

OBJECTIVE This article presents and overview of the main results and conclusions from the Mexican National Nutrition Survey 1999 (NNS-1999) and the principal nutrition policy implications of the findings. MATERIAL AND METHODS The NNS-1999 was conducted on a national probabilistic sample of almost 18,000 households, representative of the national, regional, as well as urban and rural levels in...