Please circulate widely!

"Nutritional Status Assessment and Analysis" - a new e-learning course and set of resources for trainers - has been released by the EC-FAO Food Security Programme.

This course covers the basic concepts of malnutrition, describes how nutritional status is assessed, and identifies the most commonly used nutrition indicators and criteria for selecting indicators in specific contexts and situations.


Access the Course

The course is available free of charge on-line and on CD-Rom.

To access the e-learning course on-line, go to:
http://www.foodsec.org/DL/dlregistration_en.asp

To download the resources for trainers, go to:
http://www.foodsecinfoaction.org/News/tr_res_03.htm

If you have problems with on-line access, order a CD-Rom at:
http://www.foodsec.org/DL/dlorder_en.asp?modulecode=FN&modulelang=en

or send an e-mail to:
information-for-action@fao.org


Articles featuring the new e-learning course:

EC, FAO release new e-learning course
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2007/1000554/index.html


UN agency launches free e-course on causes and characteristics of malnutrition
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22496&Cr=food&Cr1=