Nutrition and chronic disease prevention: priorities for US minority groups.
Persistent disparities affecting US racial/ethnic minorities present a continuing challenge within the larger picture of chronic disease prevention, in part because of the socio-political disadvantages that affect minority populations. Many of these disparities are nutrition related. Complementary approaches to identifying priorities for nutrition assessment and intervention in minority populations include: 1) a dietary perspective that considers eating patterns in relation to current dietary guidelines, and 2) a chronic disease perspective that considers dietary implications of population risk profiles. Integrating these perspectives requires additional considerations of feasibility and relative priority for the population in question.
Kumanyika
Shiriki
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Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, CCEB, 8th Floor Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. skumanyi@cceb.med.upenn.edu
D002908:Chronic Disease; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011322:Primary Prevention; D014481:United States