Determining the nutritional status and nutritional habits of the society, raising awareness and education of the individual and the society on adequate and balanced nutrition and health, development of nutrition education programs/materials for special groups. Examining the methods and techniques (clinical, anthropometric, biochemical, biophysical, food consumption research, ecological factors, mortality and morbidity statistics) used in determining the nutritional status of the individual and society. Detailed examination of community nutrition and nutritional epidemiology, clinical methods and determination of nutritional status. Community nutrition, nutritional epidemiology and methods of determining nutritional status, nutritional anthropometry, clinical symptoms, biophysical methods, biochemical and hematological methods, health statistics; age-specific mortality and morbidity rates, food consumption studies, determination of ecological factors.