Progress on nutrition commitments: where are we now? Between May 20-28 of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) will hold the 72nd annual World Health Assembly (WHA). The WHA is the decision-making body of the WHO at which Member States gather to review and...
Nutrition recommendations for Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)-8 core questionnaire
Download: Summary of Recommendations | PDF 73KB Description of New Content in DHS-8 | PDF 84KB Date of Publication | May 2019 Between September 2018 and March 2019, DataDENT worked with stakeholders to develop a set of nutrition recommendations for DHS. The “Summary...
Quantifying the nutrition transition among children in low- and middle-income countries
© 2012 Akintunde Akinleye/NURHI, Courtesy of Photoshare Over 25 years ago, Dr. Barry Popkin described a global “nutrition transition” – a shift of diets high in fruits, vegetables, and healthy fats to diets high in sugar, saturated fat, and processed foods [1]. This...
Malnutrition: A key barrier to women and girls’ empowerment
© 2017 Dr. Mohd. Irfan Ahamad Seyyed, Courtesy of Photoshare March 8th marks International Women’s Day, an annual celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political contributions of women. Since 1911, International Women’s Day has been an official day to...
Breastfeeding Counseling: The need for actionable data
© 2016 Sanjeeta/CCP India, Courtesy of Photoshare In early 2019, the WHO released global guidance that recommends breastfeeding counseling for all women starting during pregnancy up until the child is two years or older. However, data on the coverage of breastfeeding...
Recommendations to update nutrition content of the Demographic and Health Surveys
Over the past five months, Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition Transformation (DataDENT) has been working with a diverse group of lead authors and technical reviewers from the nutrition community to develop a set of ten recommendations for the Demographic and...
Preliminary findings from an online nutrition stakeholders survey
With the commitment outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals of ending malnutrition in all its forms by 2030, there is growing global demand for information to track nutritional status and its determinants including intervention coverage. To document what type of...
Measuring the coverage of nutrition interventions along the continuum of care: Time to act at scale
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...
Release of Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments Meeting Report
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 here.
Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments
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...
World Health Assembly: Monitoring progress of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition Progress through the Global database on the Implementation of Nutrition Action (GINA)
Progress on nutrition commitments: where are we now? Between May 20-28 of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) will hold the 72nd annual World Health Assembly (WHA). The WHA is the decision-making body of the WHO at which Member States gather to review and...
Nutrition recommendations for Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)-8 core questionnaire
Download: Summary of Recommendations | PDF 73KB Description of New Content in DHS-8 | PDF 84KB Date of Publication | May 2019 Between September 2018 and March 2019, DataDENT worked with stakeholders to develop a set of nutrition recommendations for DHS. The “Summary...
Quantifying the nutrition transition among children in low- and middle-income countries
© 2012 Akintunde Akinleye/NURHI, Courtesy of Photoshare Over 25 years ago, Dr. Barry Popkin described a global “nutrition transition” – a shift of diets high in fruits, vegetables, and healthy fats to diets high in sugar, saturated fat, and processed foods [1]. This...
Malnutrition: A key barrier to women and girls’ empowerment
© 2017 Dr. Mohd. Irfan Ahamad Seyyed, Courtesy of Photoshare March 8th marks International Women’s Day, an annual celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political contributions of women. Since 1911, International Women’s Day has been an official day to...
Breastfeeding Counseling: The need for actionable data
© 2016 Sanjeeta/CCP India, Courtesy of Photoshare In early 2019, the WHO released global guidance that recommends breastfeeding counseling for all women starting during pregnancy up until the child is two years or older. However, data on the coverage of breastfeeding...
Recommendations to update nutrition content of the Demographic and Health Surveys
Over the past five months, Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition Transformation (DataDENT) has been working with a diverse group of lead authors and technical reviewers from the nutrition community to develop a set of ten recommendations for the Demographic and...
Preliminary findings from an online nutrition stakeholders survey
With the commitment outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals of ending malnutrition in all its forms by 2030, there is growing global demand for information to track nutritional status and its determinants including intervention coverage. To document what type of...
Measuring the coverage of nutrition interventions along the continuum of care: Time to act at scale
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...
Release of Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments Meeting Report
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 here.
Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments
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...