title: Elements of nutrition policy in Portugal.
abstract: A nutrition policy, as defined by WHO (Elizabet Helsing), has not yet been approved by the Portuguese Parliament. Several nutrition programmes have, however, been implemented, the following being the most important; the school milk programme, started in 1973; several programmes on nutrition education for the general public carried out since 1974; the programme for promotion of success in school, started in 1987, covering several areas, including free food supplementation and the WHO CINDI Programme, a community intervention programme aimed at reducing common chronic disease risk factors, started, in Portugal, 1987, in the district of Setúbal, a pilot area, with a population of 740,000.
authors.affiliation: Nutrition Research Centre, National Institute of Health, Lisbon Codex, Portugal.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cruz
mesh_terms: D004032:Diet / Q000639:trends; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011174:Portugal