Are research priorities in Latin America in line with the nutritional problems of the population?

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 466-477

  Llanos, Adolfo ^a,b   Teresa Oyarzún, María ^a   Bonvecchio, Anabelle ^c   A Rivera, Juan ^c   Uauy, Ricardo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Arnot Ogden Medical Center   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Latin America; Nutrition epidemiology; Nutrition research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOD SAFETY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LACTATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH PRIORITY; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STUNTING SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITION POLICY; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH;

EID: 42149120135     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007000730     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Global Forum for Health Research (GFHR). 10/90 Report on Health Research 2003-2004. Report No. 4. Geneva: GFRH, 10 May 2004.
2. World Health Organization (WHO). Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development. Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Geneva: WHO, 2001.
3. Bloom BR, Michaud CM, La Montagne JR, Simonsen L. Priorities for global research and development of interventions. In: Jamison DT, Breman JG, Measham AR, Alleyne G, Claeson M, Evans DB, et al., eds. Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: The World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2006; 103-18.
4. Freire WB, ed. Nutrition and an Active Life: From Knowledge to Action. Scientific and Technical Publication No. 612. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization, 2005.
5. World Health Organization (WHO). Report of the Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation on Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases. Technical Report Series No. 916. Geneva: WHO, 2003.
6. Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative. The 10/90 Report on Health Research 2001-2002. Geneva: Global Forum for Health Research, 2006; 181-7.
7. Mendez MA, Monteiro CA, Popkin BM. Overweight exceeds underweight among women in most developing countries. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2005; 81(3): 714-21.
8. Victora C, Albernaz E, Lutter C. The role of research in the formulation of infant feeding. In: Freire WB, ed. Nutrition and an Active Life: From Knowledge to Action. Scientific and Technical Publication No. 612. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization, 2005; 21-32.
9. Institution Building for Research and Advanced Training in Food and Nutrition in Developing Countries, based on a Workshop held by the United Nations University and the International Union of Nutritional Sciences in Manila, Philippines, 18-23 August 1996 [special issue]. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 1997; 18(2).