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**Fact Sheet**    National **Nutrition Monitoring** and    Related Research Program    March 21, 2000

**Nutrition Monitoring in the United States: The Directory of    Federal and State Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Activities**267 pp.    (PHS) 00-1255**View/download PDF** 860 KB

The National Center for Health    Statistics (NCHS) plays a major role in monitoring the nutritional and health status of    the American population. Working with members of the Interagency Board for Nutrition    Monitoring and Related Research (IBNMRR), NCHS provides information about dietary and    nutritional status, conditions that affect dietary and nutritional status, and the    relationship between diet and health. 

The IBNMRR directed the development of    the 10-Year Comprehensive Plan for the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research    Program and oversees its implementation. The plan was formally sent to Congress in January    1993. The goals of the plan are to:collect quality data that are    continuous, coordinated, timely, and reliable; use comparable methods for collecting    data and reporting the results;conduct related research; and efficiently and effectively disseminate    and exchange information with data users. 

In October 1998, the    IBNMRR released its first Internet-only publication. The Directory of Federal and State    Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Activities is part of an effort to improve    dissemination of information on nutrition monitoring programs. The first Directory was    published in 1989, the second in 1992, and the third in 1998. The 2000 report can be found,    in its entirety, through this home page. Single photocopies of the Directory are available    upon request to NCHS. 

Under the auspices of    the Board, scientific reports were published in 1986 and 1989. The latest, the **Third Report    on Nutrition Monitoring in the United States**, published in 1995, is available    in a set of two volumes from the Government Printing Office (GPO).

An executive summary of    the report is released in electronic format.

**Third Report on Nutrition    Monitoring in the United States**: **Executive Summary**.    45 pp. GPO stock number: 001-000-04620-9 price $3.75**View/download PDF** 669KB

A publication entitled    Chartbook I: Selected Findings from the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research    Program was also published to supplement information in the 1989 scientific report.

 

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This page last reviewed March 31, 2000

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