Research Basics
This describes a type of study where you follow a group of people over time
What is a cohort study
The practice of improving health and nutrition at a population level.
What is community nutrition?
This describes prevention level of immunizations and healthy eating campaigns.
What is primary prevention?
The are the conditions where people live, work, learn, and play that affect a wide range of health issues and outcomes.
What are the social determinates of health?
The program where health exams are required and you receive food, nutrition education, and referrals to other agencies.
What is WIC?
This describes a study where those with a disease are compared to a group without a disease.
What is a case control study.
Needs assessments, policy development, and community education.
What are responsibilities unique to community dietitians?
This is the most common type of malnutrition.
What is protein-energy malnutrition?
The sum of one's genetic material.
What is a genome?
The largest entitlement food assistance program.
This is the one-time collection of data counting all the cases of a specific disease among a group of people at a certain time.
What is a cross-sectional study.
Data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade.
What is Healthy People 2030?
This is the presence of no edema with severe fat and muscle wasting.
This is how diets affect genes.
What is nutrigenomics?
This program does not provide food but does provide grants to higher education to assist in community development in meal planning, meal budgeting, meal preparation, etc.
What is EFNEP?
What is the Institutional Review Board.
When someone believes their culture is the best over other cultures.
What is ethnocentric?
This involves assessing the past and future, assessing future goals, and trends.
What are strategic plans?
What is nutrigenetics?
A program that supports Meals on Wheels and congregative meals.
What is Older Americans Act Nutrition Program (formally ENP)
This type of research is done through iterations of written consensus of subject matter experts.
What is the Delphi method.
When people have access to food and potable water at all times.
This activity separates large groups of potential clients into more distinct and homogeneous subgroups for marketing.
What is market segmentation?
The study of how a person's genome, lifestyle factors, and the environment interact.
What is nutritional genomics?
A food and nutrition assistance program where states determine the eligiblity and services provided.
What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families?