Nutrition Baseline Software
Guidelines and additional Information
To improve the
nutritional status and living conditions in communities, it is necessary
to determine the nature, magnitude and causes of malnutrition. For this purpose
this program has been developed. It is based on the 'Guidelines for Nutrition
Baseline Surveys in Communities' by Rainer Gross, Arnfried Kielmann, Rolf
Korte, Hans Schoeneberger and Werner Schultink. The program helps in preparing
a suitable questionnaire, in entering the data and in evaluating the results. The main purpose of the software is to integrate all steps
of a Nutrition Baseline Survey into a single program. The program contains
a standard Nutrition Baseline questionnaire which can easily be customized
for the specific site, a function for printing out the questionnaire,
a data entry unit which controls the data being entered, a specially
adapted plausibility check, a report function and a graphics section.
The report function enables one to produce with one click the full set of
descriptive statistics of a baseline survey and the graphics section
contains in addition to the standard graphs specially designed graphics
for the anthropometric indices with comparison to the NCHS standard.
The anthropometric indices (Z-scores of height-for-age, weight-for-height,
weight-for-age) and the prevalence of stunting, wasting, underweight
and overweight of children are calculated automatically. For further
statistical evaluation the data can be exported to SPSS or any other
statistical program.
Download
of the Software (since this part of the software was not further updated it is
the 2005 version of NutriSurvey.
At
www.nutrisurvey.de/ena/ena.html you can find the newer Emergency Nutrition
Assessment (ENA) software which is based
on this program. Since the ENA software is more
specific for some purposes this old version might be still useful)
Description of the Software
Guidelines for Nutrition BASELINE
Surveys in Communities (PDF)
from R.Gross, A. Kielmann, R. Korte, H. Schoeneberger and
W. Schultink
Rapid Assessment of Nutrition for Nutrition relevant Projects/Programs
in Developing Countries (PDF)
from U.
Gross and R. Gross