2000 Directory of Nutrition Monitoring Activities

[Kuester, Sarah]

Please pardon the cross-posting.

Hello.  This spring the Interagency Board for Nutrition Monitoring 
and Related Research posted an updated version of the publication 
"Nutrition Monitoring in the United States: The Directory of Federal 
and State Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research" on NCHS's 
website.  A description of the Directory and the website address 
to download the publication is given below. 

Thank you,
Sarah Kuester
Public Health Nutritionist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
sak2 at cdc.gov 
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Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/nutrishn/nutrishn.htm

Fact Sheet
National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program
March 21, 2000

Nutrition Monitoring in the United States: The Directory of
Federal and State Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research
Activities 267 pp. (PHS) 00-1255
View/download PDF 860 KB

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) plays a major
role in monitoring the nutritional and health status of the American
population. Working with members of the Interagency Board for
Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research (IBNMRR), NCHS
provides information about dietary and nutritional status,
conditions that affect dietary and nutritional status, and the
relationship between diet and health. 

The IBNMRR directed the development of the 10-Year
Comprehensive Plan for the National Nutrition Monitoring and
Related Research Program and oversees its implementation. 
The plan was formally sent to Congress in January 1993. The 
goals of the plan are to:
* collect quality data that are continuous, coordinated, timely,
and reliable; 
* use comparable methods for collecting data and reporting the
results;
* conduct related research; and 
* efficiently and effectively disseminate and exchange information
with data users. 

In October 1998, the IBNMRR released its first Internet-only
publication. The Directory of Federal and State Nutrition
Monitoring and Related Research Activities is part of an effort to
improve dissemination of information on nutrition monitoring
programs. The first Directory was published in 1989, the second in
1992, and the third in 1998. The 2000 report can be found, in its
entirety, through this home page. Single photocopies of the
Directory are available upon request to NCHS.