by Sharmin Sultana | Jan 1, 2019
Journal Article | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001290 Date of Publication | January 2019 Abstract: The global community is committed to addressing malnutrition. And yet, coverage data for high-impact interventions along the continuum of care remain scarce due...
by Sharmin Sultana | Dec 6, 2018 | uncategorized
The Demographic Health Survey (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) are primary sources of nationally-representative maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition data for the global health community. In an online survey conducted by DataDENT earlier...
by Sharmin Sultana | Dec 5, 2018 | uncategorized
The full meeting report, presentations, and working group notes from the Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments (September 19-20, 2018) are now available on the DataDENT website...
by Sharmin Sultana | Dec 5, 2018
Full Report | PDF 25MB Executive summary | PDF 551KB Main report body (no annexes) | PDF 2MB Annexes | PDF 25MB Date of Publication | December 2018 On September 19-20, 2018, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the United States Agency for International...
by Sharmin Sultana | Dec 1, 2018
DataDENT carried out a global data visualization tool (DVT) in nutrition landscaping which found that global nutrition DVTs tend to report on certain types of indicators using different definitions which may lead to different conclusions. To better understand this...