Dietary assessment tools for developing countries for use in multi-centric, collaborative protocols

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 6 A, 2002, Pages 955-968

  Solomons, Noel W ^a,b   Valdés Ramos, Roxana ^c  

^a Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment Aging and Metabolism Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^b Section 3163/Guatemala   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PERINATOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Dietary assessment; MesoAmerica; Multi centre studies; Nutritional epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; DIETETICS; ETHICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TECHNIQUE; VARIANCE;

ADULT; AGED; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY;

EID: 0036927767     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2002390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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