Public Health, Epidemiology & Nutrition

Nutritional Epidemiology

Nutritional epidemiology is an area of epidemiology that involves research mainly to examine the role of nutrition in the etiology of disease, monitor the nutritional status of populations and to develop & evaluate interventions to achieve and maintain healthful eating patterns among populations. Evidence of a link between prevalent chronic disease and the has led to new investigations in nutritional epidemiology. Nutritional Epidemiology is the study of disease transmission which deals with the observing at the part of nourishment in etiology of the condition, watching the nutritious status within the population and to preserve solid designs of great well-being among the society. Nutritional epidemiology is a relatively new field or younger disciplines in epidemiology and medical research. Physical Activity and Diet are difficult to measure accurately, which may partly explain why nutrition has received less attention than other risk factors for disease in epidemiology.