Emergency Nutrition Specialist
Normal user
3 Aug 2011, 10:48
Is there international consensus on the SAM threshold to trigger a response? I understand other contextual factors need also to be considered. Still on the same GAM prevalence > 15% calls for immediate emergency intervention. The GAM (%) benchmarks were based on NCHS, with the new WHO standards is there a need to review the benchmarks?
Rogers
Frequent user
3 Aug 2011, 12:33
This has been discussed previously
here,
here and (probably) elsewhere in these forums. You will see that I am not a fan of the thresholds approach. On the question of revision ... it could be argued that WGS is just a better NCHS so we should keep the same thresholds.
Emergency Nutrition Specialist
Normal user
11 Aug 2011, 16:35
Hi Mark
Thanks for the response on SAM threshold . I have read the similar question and responses posted in this forum .
Thanks