Community Nutrition

COMMUNITY NUTRITION 3 (1+2)

Lesson 7 : Assessment of Nutritional Status Based on Vital Statistics

Vital statistics

Advantages:

1. It does not need much human resources.
2. Less time, money and work is involved.
3. Easy to interpret.

Disadvantages:

1. Sometimes collection of accurate information is not possible.
2. Availability of local statistics and its acceptability by the public is difficult.
3. Stated cause of death may be quite unreliable.