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“…If death rate was an inappropriate indicator to assess food deficits which were not serious or acute enough to increase mortality due to starvation, as in famine conditions, more sensitive indicators of food inadequacy had to be identified and, in order to justify policy interventions, had to be quantified. The LNHO therefore set up a series of conferences of experts in the 1930s, aimed at establishing procedures for enquiries into the health effects of food insufficiency, arriving at an international consensus on the most suitable method for detecting early indications of food deprivation and standardizing methods for studying diets (Boudreau, ). Hence, by necessity and definition, these indicators of food insufficiency were constructs based on statistical cut‐off points with their inherent notion of norms.…”
Section: Framing the Problem: Undernutrition Or Malnutritionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…If death rate was an inappropriate indicator to assess food deficits which were not serious or acute enough to increase mortality due to starvation, as in famine conditions, more sensitive indicators of food inadequacy had to be identified and, in order to justify policy interventions, had to be quantified. The LNHO therefore set up a series of conferences of experts in the 1930s, aimed at establishing procedures for enquiries into the health effects of food insufficiency, arriving at an international consensus on the most suitable method for detecting early indications of food deprivation and standardizing methods for studying diets (Boudreau, ). Hence, by necessity and definition, these indicators of food insufficiency were constructs based on statistical cut‐off points with their inherent notion of norms.…”
Section: Framing the Problem: Undernutrition Or Malnutritionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While this organization was primarily aimed at supporting collective security and the peaceful resolution of conflicts, it was also required "to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease" (League of Nations 1920). To this purpose, its health section provided technical assistance to member governments, published epidemiological data and technical reports, and set up a number of committees on specific issues, such as the standardization of laboratory protocols, the prevention and control of malaria, and the international traffic in opium (Boudreau 1935;HowardJones 1950).…”
Section: The Who Regional Office For Europementioning
confidence: 99%