PBHLTH 206AW
Nutrition Assessment
Nutrition assessment tools are used to evaluate an individual’s or population’s nutrition status and/or risk of specific nutrient excess or deficiency. This 3-unit course will discuss various dietary, anthropometric, clinical, and biochemical nutrition assessment tools and provide you with skills to determine which assessment tools are needed based on program/research project goals, how to interpret nutrition assessment survey results and apply them to populations, and critically evaluate the metrics used to define different types of malnutrition.
Topics
- 1. Recommend the appropriate nutrition assessment tool needed based on the target population, nutrient/ nutrition issue of interest, and goal of the assessment. 2. Critically evaluate nutrition assessment tools based on their required resources, applications, limitations, and biases. 3. Interpret nutrition assessment results and apply them at the population level.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027