Food and Nutrition Monitoring System in Water Development Program
Issued Date
1980
Resource Type
Language
eng
Rights
Mahidol University
Suggested Citation
Panata Migasena, ปณต มิคะเสน (1980). Food and Nutrition Monitoring System in Water Development Program. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/63364
Title
Food and Nutrition Monitoring System in Water Development Program
Author(s)
Abstract
In 1972 Migasena summarized the situation of nutrition, health status and also the impact of development in lover Mekong Basin Few year later The Food and Nutrition Monitoring System has been established among the riparian countries of the Mekong River in order to monitor trends in food, nutritional effects and application foappropriate preventive measures, This ststem aims to function through the National teams in the respective countries which will periodically accumulate baseline information on the existing situation with respect of food, nutrition and health status in the areas where pioneer agricultural projects, fisheries and resettlement projects are being or will be implemented.
Minimal standardized assessment and also full scale assessment are also suggested for those teams who have different caqability. This system may be a very useful operational research for our national health and nutrition development program. The important function of this system would be to participate at the planning stage those ecological changes from development projects which could bear
on the health and nutrition status of population and to suggest feasible programs for control to be
instituted concurrent with implementation of projects. At the sametime those changes in health and nutrition status of the population may be a good indicator of the suscessful of those integrated development programs to the communities.
Description
The first national conference on public health: Faculty of Public Healt Mahidol University, May 21-23, 1980: abstract. Bangkok: Faculty of Public Healt, Mahidol University; 1980. p.28.