Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Avenida Universidad No 655, colonia Santa María Ahuacatitlan, 62508 Cuernavaca Morelos, México. jrivera@insp.mx
This article presents and overview of the main results and conclusions from the Mexican National Nutrition Survey 1999 (NNS-1999) and the principal nutrition policy implications of the findings.
The NNS-1999 was conducted on a national probabilistic sample of almost 18,000 households, representative of the national, regional, as well as urban and rural levels in Mexico. Subjects included were children