Determine Some indicators of Malnutrition?
A few of the indicators are enumerated below:
1. Indicators related to Government policies
a. Nutrition policy
b. Nutrition interventions: feeding programmes (e.g. school meals)
c. Percent free school meals (eligibility, uptake): is this a marker of nutritional health or a marker of social or health inequalities?
d. Food availability, e.g. foods stocked in shops used: range, availability
e. Food accessibility
i) Food prices, e.g. relative cost of healthier food, money for food, shopping ' capacity, domestic storage capacity etc.
f. Food security -International and National
g. Food stocks- e.g. amount of emergency food supplies
h. Food subsidies
i. Food budget standards defined