Support for National Nutrition Monitoring and Continuation of CSFII Food and Health Behavioral Data

[摘要]

THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION,

Recognizing that nutrition monitoring is a system of coordinated surveys, surveillance systems, and other monitoring activities that provide information about the dietary, nutritional, and health related status of Americans; the relationships between diet and health; and the factors affecting dietary and nutritional status,¹ with surveys including, but not limited to, the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Health and Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted by the United States Department of Health and Human Resources; and

Being aware that the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 clearly states that the nutrition monitoring Ten-year Comprehensive Plan shall include components to maintain and coordinate the federal nutrition monitoring activities;² and

Recognizing that the Food and Nutrition Board found that a single dietary survey, either CSFII or NHANES would not provide the information required by users;³ and

Being aware that nutrition monitoring is vital to policy making and research including identifying high risk groups and locations that need food assistance and nutrition programs, assessing progress toward achieving Healthy People objectives, evaluating food assistance and nutrition programs, assessing microbiological and environmental risks in food, and contributing to development of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and Dietary Reference Intakes;⁴ and

Recognizing that public health nutritionists and other public health professionals rely on nutrition monitoring data to track changes in health in their communities and states; and

Being concerned that nutrition monitoring is now reduced to NHANES data collection only, resulting in decreased food-based data, reduced sample size and elimination of data linking diet and health behavior¹; and

Concluding that nutrition monitoring is a vital component to improving public health; therefore:

1. Supports participation of APHA in coalition efforts to support nutrition monitoring;
2. Urges Congress to support funding for continuation of CSFII food and health behavior data and the ongoing collection of nutrition monitoring data;
3. Urges the administration and Congress to support appropriations to research better methods of nutrition monitoring data collection and analysis including aggregation of data for state, local and tribal use;
4. Supports review of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act including coordination of the nutrition monitoring report to Congress review of the Dietary Guidelines.

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References

1. Interagency Board for Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research. Bialostosky K, ed. Nutrition monitoring in the United States: The directory of Federal and State nutrition monitoring and related research activities. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 1998.
2. U.S. Congress. Pub. L. 101-445. National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990. Washington: 101st Congress. 1990 NRC, Food and Nutrition Board report, National Survey Data on Food Consumption: Uses and Recommendations
3. Interagency Board for Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research. Nutrition Monitoring in the United States, National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program. September 1992
4. Agricultural Research Service Report to Congress. Integration of the National health and Nutrition Examination Survey and Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals. US Department of Agriculture. January 2001.

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[发布日期] 2001-01-01

[学科分类] 医学（综合）