July 200
Steve Collins, Arabella Duffield & Mark Myatt
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This report was written by
Steve Collins, Valid International
Arabella Duffield, ACC/SCN Secretariat and
Mark Myatt, Institute of Ophthalmology, London
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We are grateful to the following reviewers for their comments: Monika Blösnner (WHO), Tim Cole (Institute of Child
Health), Mary Corbett (Concern), Mercedes de Onis (WHO), Mike Golden (University
of Aberdeen), Saskia van der Kam (Médecins Sans Frontières),
Carlos Navarro-Colorado (Action Contre La Faim), Nick Norgan (University of
Loughborough), Claudine Prudhon (Action Contre La Faim), Simon Strickland
(London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Stanley Ulijaszek (Oxford
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Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA, DFA (Ireland), NORAD, DFID (UK), UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and Valid International. This report was made possible through the support provided
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Measuring nutritional status in adults
Theoretical problems with BMI
Practical problems with BMI
Summary - the use of BMI
Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC)
Theoretical problems with MUAC
Practical problems with MUAC
Summary - the use of MUAC
Clinical signs for screening acute undernutrition
Famine oedema
Clinical models
Activities of daily living
Summary - the use of clinical models
Primary and secondary undernutrition
General summary - suggested indicators for assessing adult undernutrition in the field