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