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Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, United States Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 20201
Information collected through nutrition monitoring efforts is an essential component in the process of effectively translating scientific evidence into public policy. This paper reviews the uses of nutrition monitoring data for policy and program decisions, describes recent progress to strengthen the National Nutrition Monitoring System, and outlines challenges that lie ahead in the nutrition monitoring arena.
KEY WORDS: nutrition monitoring nutrition surveillance nutrition surveys nutrition policy
1 Presented as part of a conference, "Nutrition Monitoring and Nutrition Status Assessment", at the first fall meeting of the American Institute of Nutrition, Charleston, South Carolina, December 810, 1989. The conference was supported in part by cooperative agreement HPU880004-02-1 with the DHHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the USDA Human Nutrition Information Service, the DHHS National Center for Health Statistics, and the International Life Sciences Institute-Nutrition Foundation.
2 The Planning Committee for the meeting consisted of Drs. Helen A. Guthrie, Roy J. Martin, Linda D. Meyers, James A. Olson, Catherine E. Woteki, and Richard G. Allison (ex officio). The symposium papers were edited by a committee consisting of Dr. James Allen Olson (coordinator), Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Dr. Cathy C. Campbell, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Dr. Roy J. Martin, Dept. of Foods & Nutrition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and Dr. Catherine E. Woteki, Food & Nutrition Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.
Manuscript received 22 March 1990. Revision accepted 11 July 1990.