Coverage of food intake assessment in the Brazilian Food and Nutrition Surveillance System: 2008 to 2013

Conclusion: Despite the continuous data collection, food intake assessment proved to be incipient, and its distribution in the cities was low. Implementation of the National Food and Nutrition Policy can be enhanced by overcoming central issues, such as physical structure and training of professionals, which prevent the progress of system consolidation.
Source: Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia - Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research