Micronutrient malnutrition: policies and programs for control and their implications

Global progress in social and economic development is occurring, although slowly, in the most needy parts of the nonindustrialized world, where nutritional deficiencies, including micronutrients, remain significant public health problems. Until empowering benefits accrue from development spin-offs,...

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Published in:Annual review of nutrition 1999-01, Vol.19 (1), p.303-324
Main Authors: Underwood, B.A, Smitasiri, S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
administrative management
Biological and medical sciences
change
communication
community nutrition
Developing Countries
Diet
Dietary Supplements
disease control
Economic development
food and nutrition programs
food intake
Health problems
history
Humans
literature reviews
Malnutrition
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Micronutrients
nutrient deficiencies
Nutrition Disorders - epidemiology
Nutrition Disorders - prevention & control
nutrition education
Nutrition Policy
nutritional adequacy
nutritional intervention
nutritive value
Other nutritional diseases (malnutrition, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies...)
participation
Plant breeding
poverty
program evaluation
Public health
Quality of life
trace element deficiencies
vitamin deficiencies
women
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Summary:Global progress in social and economic development is occurring, although slowly, in the most needy parts of the nonindustrialized world, where nutritional deficiencies, including micronutrients, remain significant public health problems. Until empowering benefits accrue from development spin-offs, policy guidance for purposeful public health actions can help reduce the unconscionable toll on health and quality of life from micronutrient malnutrition and can interrupt its intergenerational debilitating effects on national development. Narrowly focused control programs including homestead production, plant breeding, fortification, and supplementation are in effect, but in general, they have not been holistically planned and integrated into overall development programs. Such integration is needed to ensure sustainability into the next century. A new paradigm is needed, including a new way of thinking by nutrition scientists and program implementers that includes partnerships with the poor in all aspects of program planning and implementation.
ISSN:0199-9885
1545-4312
DOI:10.1146/annurev.nutr.19.1.303