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Nutritionall situtaion of rural and urban elderly from selelcted east asian and latin american developing countries

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BY THE YEAR 2020, THE PROPORTION OF THE POPULATION OVER 55 YEARS OF AGE IS DUE TO INCREASE BY 72% IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. COGNIZANT OF THE FACT THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW STUDIES ON THE ELDERLY IN EAST ASIA, AND THAT NUTRITION PLAYS A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE WELL BEING AND HEALTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL, EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES (CHINA, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, THE PHILIPPINES AND THAILAND) AND LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES (BRAZIL, MEXICO AND GUATEMALA) HAVE DECIDED TO UNDERTAKE CROSS CULTURAL RESEARCH ON NUTRITION AND THE ELDERLY. THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES OF THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY AND ITALY WILL COLLABORA TE ON THE STUDY IN VIEW OF THEIR EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE IN THE EC CONCERTED ACTION ON NUTRITION AND THE ELDERLY. IT IS THE GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED CROSS CULTURAL STUDY TO IDENTIFY THE NUTRITIONAL SITUATION OF URBAN AND RURAL ELDERLY INDEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND TO GENERATE HYPOTHESES WHICH STIMULATE AND STRENGTHEN FURTHER RESEARCH NETWORKING BETWEEN THE PARTICIPATING RESEARCH CENTERS. A TOTAL OF 200 RURAL AND 400 URBAN INDIVIDUALS RANGING IN AGE FROM 60 TO 70 YEARS, WILL BE COMPARED WITH ADULTS AGED 35 TO 40 YEARS. INDEPENDENTLY LIVING RURAL AND URBAN INDIVIDUALS WILL BE SELECTED RANDOMLY. THE PROPOSED STUDY IS CROSS-SECTIONAL IN NATURE AND IS MADE UP OF TWO COMPONENTS: 1. THE CORE CONSISTS OF THE BLOCK OF VARIABLES WHICH ARE AN OBLIGATORY PART OF ALL CENTRES DATA COLLECTION INCLUDING COMMUNITY PROFILE, SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBJECTS, ANTHROPOMETRY, BASIC BLOOD VALUES, BASIC NUTRITION RELATED HEALTH DATA, DIETARY INTAKE, FOOD BEHAVIOUR AND BELIEFS, AND LIFE STYLE DATA; 2. THE OPTIONAL COMPONENT IS COMPROMISED OF THE BLOCK OF VARIABLES FOR WHICH ADDITIONAL DATA MAY BE COLLECTED DEPENDING ON THE RESOURCES AND CAPABILITIES OF THE COOPERATING/COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS. THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES WILL MEET AND AGREE ON THE PRESCRIBED METHODOLOGY, AND AFTERWARDS A MANUAL OF OPERATIONS WILL BE MADE AND INTENSI VE TRAINING FOR RESEARCH PERSONNEL WILL BE CONDUCTED.THE RESEARCH PROTOCOLS OF THE EC-EURONUT-SENECA CONCERTED ACTION ON NUTRITION AND HEALTH IN THE ELDERLY AND IUNS ON NUTRITION AND ELDERLY, WILL BE USED AS A GUIDES. IN ADDITIONM THIS ALLOWS A COMPARISON TO BE DRAWN BETWEEN THE OLD EUROPEAN DATA VS. THE NEWLY COLLECTED DATA FROM THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

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