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.
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
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D002908:Chronic Disease; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011322:Primary Prevention; D014481:United States