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- Title
Ernährungsempfehlungen und ihre wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen— welche Evidenz sollte Public Health Maßnahmen zu Grunde liegen?
- Authors
Kroke, Anja; Boeing, Heiner; Euler, Ulrike; Rossnagel, Karin; Willich, Stefan
- Abstract
In curative medicine, an evidence based approach has become increasingly important. This approach that is characterised by a systematic and transparent analysis and evaluation of the literature has not been frequently applied to the development and formulation of dietary recommendations. Whether this concept is applicable to population based primary prevention with life-style interventions, however, needs to be discussed first. Especially, the different type of data available warrants intensive discussions: as compared to the evaluation of medical therapies or diagnostic tests where randomised control trials play a crucial role, most studies in the area of nutrition prevention have an observational design. Public health nutrition is the area o f nutrition research that should take a lead in the discussion about evidence criteria and the grading of evidence. A major concern here is to promote a scientifically based development of dietary prevention concepts by the integration o f knowledge derived from both basic sciences and nutritional epidemiology. This would be an important contribution to exhaust the potential of primary prevention in the area of nutrition.
- Publication
Journal of Public Health (09431853), 2002, Vol 10, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0943-1853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02962488