Nutrition Assesment Flashcards
What is malnutrition?
Any condition caused by excess or deficient food energy or nutrient intake or by an imbalance of nutrients
What is under nutrition ?
Deficient energy or nutrients
What is over nutrition ?
Excess energy or nutrients
What is a nutrition assessment ?
A comprehensive analysis of a person’s nutrition status that uses health, socioeconomic, drug, and diet histories; anthropometric measurements; physical examinations; and laboratory tests
What is a health history?
An account of a client’s current and past health status and disease risks
Drug history
A record of all the drugs, over the counter and prescribed, that a person takes routinely
Diet history
A record of eating behaviors and the foods a person eats
Anthropometric
Relating to measurements of the physical characteristics of the body, such as height and weight
Overt
Out in the open and easy to observe
Primary Deficiency
A nutrient deficiency caused by inadequate dietary intake of a nutrient
Secondary deficiency
A nutrient deficiency caused by something other than an inadequate intake, such as a disease condition or drug interaction that reduces absorption, accelerates use, hastens excretion, or destroys the nutrient
Subclinical deficiency
A deficiency in the early stages, before the outward signs have appeared
Covert
Hidden, as if under covers
Healthy people
A national public health initiative under the jurisdiction of the US department of health and human service that identifies the most significant preventable threats to health and focuses efforts to eliminate them
Risk factor
A condition or behavior associated with an elevated frequency of a disease but not proved to be casual.
