MEDI363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Economic Indicator, Food Security, Real Change
7 Aug 2018
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Understand the elements of monitoring across the food and nutrition system. Be aware of available nutrition data sources and their limitations. Identify the main uses of food and nutrition monitoring information. Public health nutrition: embodies key principles of public health, focuses on nutrition issues affecting whole population, promotes good health and early intervention to prevent health problems, uses a systems approach. Impact of food production: distribution, access, consumption on nutritional status/health of particular population groups, considers social and environmental determinants of food consumption as well as food and nutrition knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours in the broader community. Australian nutrition data: nutrition & pa survey 2011, 1996. Food and nutrition system monitoring: food system approach, who are the users, government/service providers/industry/researchers, what are the uses, priority setting/setting standards/policies and guidelines/research and development/program development, monitoring system. What should be measured in a national food and nutrition monitoring and surveillance. Framework for a national fnms in australia what they want to measure.
