| Abstract: |
There are two main kinds of malnutrition, one associated with absolute or relative nutritional deficiencies and the other resulting from dietary excesses. As a result of advances in knowledge, prospects for nutrition in the 1990s appear quite different from those in past decades for both kinds of malnutrition. After years of controversy, a remarkable degree of consensus has developed regarding the kind of nutritional goals most likely to promote good health. Concurrently, focus on a child survival and development strategy within a broader concern for implementing the 1978 WHO Alma Ata Meeting concept of nutrition and primary health care has been having a remarkable degree of success in a growing number of countries. These developments are giving new hope that the World Health Organization (WHO) goal of health for all by the year 2000 will be achieved by a large number of developing countries. This review summarizes briefly the current status of public health nutrition problems of both developing and industrialized countries and extrapolates to developments in public health nutrition that can be anticipated in the 1990s.
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