The Development of Eating Behavior and Nutrition Database among Thais Project

The important of eating behavior and nutrition surveys is well acknowledged. The results from the surveys provide crucial information for policy makers to create public health policy, especially in the area of health promotion. Despite, the number of eating behavior and nutrition surveys has been done from many organizations nowadays in Thailand including government and private sectors, the problems are still occurred. There is no data management system, where it can be the information center of all surveys. The limitations of doing this kind of work has been reviewed, for example, the surveys are different in setting objectives, target population, age group classification, methodologies and designs. Moreover, most of the surveys are operated irregularly, due to lack of technical and budgetary support. Thus, the trend of dietary changes in Thai population could not be clearly seen and leads to no actions have been taken.