Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Monitoring Food Habits in the Australian Population using Short Questions
There is a growing interest in assessing food habits and population nutrition by Commonwealth, state and territory health departments and by non-government and commercial organisations. This usually takes the form of special purpose surveys, or monitoring, where surveys using a similar design and dietary assessment methods are repeated over time. These have a broad range of objectives but frequently include short questions to assess food habits and breastfeeding practices.
Prepared by Dr Geoffrey C Marks, Dr Karen Webb, Ingrid HE Rutishauser and Dr Malcolm Riley, Australian Food and Nutrition Monitoring Unit for Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
2001
ISBN: 0 642 82050 3
PDF printable version of Monitoring Food Habits in the Australian Population using Short Questions (PDF 266 KB)
For further information please phone the Population Health Division on 1800 020 103 (and ask for extension 8654) or email PHD Frontdesk.
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