title: National Nutrition Monitoring System: a congressional perspective.
abstract: A national nutrition monitoring system can serve as a basic epidemiological tool necessary to examine the linkages between food consumption patterns, nutritional status, and health status. The major component of the 1981 Joint Implementation Plan for a Comprehensive National Nutrition Monitoring System (NNMS) includes the interlocking of the study design and data analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Nationwide Food Consumption Survey to begin in 1987. Congress needs the information from the NNMS to formulate and evaluate the consequences of nutrition and health policies, regulations, and programs.
mesh_terms: D004034:Diet Surveys; D005260:Female; D006077:Government Agencies; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D014481:United States