title: Federal monitoring of the nation's nutritional status. Contributions of the National Center for Health Statistics.
abstract: The National Center for Health Statistics conducts a broad program of record-based systems and population surveys providing information on the health and nutritional status of the US population. The record-based systems include vital statistics and health-care surveys. Population surveys include the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the National Health Interview Survey, the National Survey of Family Growth, and epidemiologic follow-back surveys. Although all of these data systems provide nutrition-related information, the NHANES collects the most directly relevant nutritional status data through interview and examination of a national probability sample of children and adults. The third NHANES is scheduled to begin in September 1988 and is designed to provide cross-sectional estimates of dietary intake and nutritional status for nutrition-monitoring purposes and to serve as the baseline for longitudinal studies of diet and health.
authors.affiliation: Division of Health Examination Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, Hyattsville, MD 20782.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Woteki
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Briefel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kuczmarski
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009309:National Center for Health Statistics, U.S.; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012494:Sampling Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014492:United States Public Health Service; D014798:Vital Statistics