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Descriptor English: Food and Nutritional Surveillance
Descriptor Spanish: Vigilancia Alimentaria y Nutricional
Descriptor vigilancia nutricional
Scope note: Proceso dinámico que permite observar permanentemente la amplitud de los problemas nutricionales y sus factores condicionantes. Esta observación se hace a través de la identificación de los hechos, recopilación, análisis e interpretación sistemática de los datos y posterior traslado de los resultados, con el fin de orientar los programas para la mejora del estado nutricional de las poblaciones. (Traducción libre del original: Gouveia 1999)
Descriptor Portuguese: Vigilância Alimentar e Nutricional
Descriptor French: Surveillance Nutritionnelle
Entry term(s): Nutritional Surveillance
Tree number(s): SP6.270.801
Scope note: Dynamic process that permits permanently to observe the amplitude of the nutritional problems and of its determinants. This observation is made through the identification of the facts, collection, analysis, and systematic interpretation of data and later transport of the results, in order to gear the programs for improvement in the nutritional status of the populations. (Free translation of the original: Gouveia 1999)
Allowable Qualifiers: MT methods
Related: Nutrition Assessment MeSH
Nutrition Programs DeCS
DeCS ID: 16573
Unique ID: DDCS016573
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Food and Nutritional Surveillance - Preferred
Concept UI FD00057823
Scope note Dynamic process that permits permanently to observe the amplitude of the nutritional problems and of its determinants. This observation is made through the identification of the facts, collection, analysis, and systematic interpretation of data and later transport of the results, in order to gear the programs for improvement in the nutritional status of the populations. (Free translation of the original: Gouveia 1999)
Preferred term Food and Nutritional Surveillance
Entry term(s) Nutritional Surveillance



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