Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How might COVID-19 contribute to global food crises? This year's report aims to answer this question while providing an overview of the global scale of acute hunger. It analyzes factors that contribute to, perpetuate, or deteriorate food crises around the world.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The International Food Policy Research Institute is publishing a series of blog posts and continually updating its website with links to provide news and information on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security, poverty, and development. The resources include virtual events hosted by IFPRI and pandemic-related podcast episodes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Because anemia is diagnosed by measuring hemoglobin concentration in blood, there is an urgent need to make a systematic comparison of hemoglobin
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
With the COVID-19 pandemic causing disruptions to food systems and food environments, a decline in optimal dietary practices could lead to serious impacts on nutritional status. To address this challenge, this curated list provides up-to-date information focused on nutrition and food systems related to COVID-19. Topics include UN agencies’ general response, food systems, pregnancy, breastfeeding, infant and young child feeding, school-age children, adults, non-communicable diseases, and emergency nutrition response.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To better understand the validity of DHS Program estimates and trends of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition outcomes, the authors examined the use of routine health facility data to contextualize estimates of fertility, maternal mortality, under-5 mortality, and wasting. They concluded that outcomes must be triangulated with multiple indicators to accurately contextualize them within health systems and non-health systems factors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To better understand health system performance and the benefits of accessing antenatal care, the authors adjusted maternity care coverage measures for quality of nutrition interventions in Malawi to determine the impact of infant birth weight and breastfeeding. The adjustments showed that despite high utilization of maternal health services, low provision of nutrition interventions is undermining infant health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To highlight key themes and identify under-researched areas in studies that look at specialized nutritious foods, the authors analyzed 142 manuscripts published from January 2011 to July 2018 and 33 clinical trials active as of July 2018. All focused on rural Africa and most dealt with the effectiveness of specialized products in addressing a narrow range of nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Using geospatial estimates of overweight and wasting prevalence among children under 5 in 105 low- and middle-income countries from 2000 and 2017, the authors aggregated these numbers to policy-relevant administrative units. The researchers found that wasting decreased overall across countries, while overweight estimates increased, leading to the double burden of malnutrition in various countries and regions. Areas with the greatest double burden were in Indonesia, Thailand, southeastern China, Botswana, Cameroon, and central Nigeria.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Although published in September, this resource remains one the few that provides information about measuring diets and diet quality. The authors developed a new statistical method to improve population distribution estimates of usual intake of nearly daily consumed foods and nutrients using single-day dietary data per person.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The authors argue that growth monitoring and promotion programs are needed for routine preventive child health care, but require a paradigm shift to contextualize programs and optimize their implementation for scalability. Based on two literature reviews and global empirical and experiential evidence, authors address five critical areas for redeveloping programs to emphasize the promotion of child growth and development.