Miller D C, Nichaman M Z, Lane J M
Bull World Health Organ. 1977;55(1):79-86.
This paper proposes a simple and inexpensive method for the field assessment of certain objective indicators of nutritional status in children of preschool age. It emphasizes the need for statistically valid sample selection and presents a design for randomly selecting 30 children from each of 30 village sites in each region for which quantitative inferences are to be made, the main purpose being to estimate the prevalence of protein-energy undernutrition and anaemia. The need to train indigenous paraprofessional workers as assessors and periodically to control their accuracy is stressed. The method used is limited to an estimate of the location and magnitude of common childhood malnutrition and it is recommended that it be supplemented by detailed ecological analysis to determine causal factors and propose remedial action.
本文提出了一种简单且成本低廉的方法，用于对学龄前儿童营养状况的某些客观指标进行现场评估。它强调了进行具有统计学有效性的样本选择的必要性，并给出了一个设计方案，即从每个地区的30个村庄地点中各随机选取30名儿童，以便进行定量推断，主要目的是估计蛋白质-能量营养不良和贫血的患病率。文中强调了培训当地辅助专业人员作为评估人员并定期控制其评估准确性的必要性。所采用的方法仅限于估计常见儿童营养不良的状况和程度，建议通过详细的生态分析对其加以补充，以确定因果因素并提出补救措施。
