THE DOUBLE MALNUTRITIONAL BURDEN AND REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN TAIWAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN: SURVEY DATABASE AND REFERENCE VALUES
Resource
ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION v.16 pp.478-506
Journal
ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL
Journal Volume
v.16
Journal Issue
NUTRITION
Pages
478-506
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
PAN, WEN-HAM
LEE, MEEI-SHYUAN
Abstract
This special issue on the Nutrition and Health Survey in
Taiwan Elementary School Children carried out during 2001-
2002 (NAHSIT Children 2001-2002) portrays the current
dilemma of the so-called "double nutritional burden" in
Taiwanese children with papers addressing topics on the
dietary characteristics, nutrition-related knowledge,
attitudes, and behaviors, usage of nutritional supplements,
nutritional biochemistry, and various aspects of diet,
nutrition, behavior, health and wellbeing in children. The
emergence of a double health burden in Taiwanese children is
more prevalent in the underprivileged and less urbanized
communities than in metropolitan cities. The NAHSIT Children
2001-2002 survey provides age-, and gender- specific
percentile values for anthropometric measurements,
physiological variables like physical fitness, blood
pressure and Pulse, respiratory function and bone density;
nutritional hematology and biochemistry. For international
comparison, these reference data are tabulated in this
report and the survey data are made available in the data
archive system maintained by the Center for Survey Research,
Academia Sinica.
Subjects
nutrition and health survey
NAHSIT children 2001-2002
double malnutrition burden
database
reference values
SDGs
Type
journal article