Nutrition surveillance has been in place in Thailand for more than ten years. Nutrition was first addressed as an explicit entity within the national development policy during the fourth National Economic and Social Development Plan (NESDP; 1977–1981). Surveillance was conceived as an important component of a nationwide nutrition programme, and an operational strategy to implement it was sought.
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