Record Details

Moving forward on choosing a standard operational indicator of women’s dietary diversity

CGSpace

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Moving forward on choosing a standard operational indicator of women’s dietary diversity
 
Creator Martin-Prevel, Y.
Allemand, P.
Wiesmann, D.
Arimond, M.
Ballard, T.
Deitchler, M.
Dop, M.C.
Kennedy, G.
Lee, W.T.K.
Moursi, M.
 
Subject human nutrition
iron
vitamin content
pregnancy
nutrients
food requirements
gender
women
 
Description Monotonous diets fail to meet human micronutrients' needs. Consequently, dietary diversity is crucial for vulnerable groups, in particular for women of reproductive age (WRA). Could the dietary diversity be measured and used as a simple population-level proxy indicator collected via large-scale surveys to reflect the micronutrient adequacy of WRA’s diets? In 2005-2010, results from the Women’s Dietary Diversity Project (WDDP) on the relationship between food group diversity and micronutrient adequacy of the diets of WRA did not lead to the development of a dichotomous indicator for use across all contexts. To address this need, FAO initiated in 2012 a follow-up project (WDDP II) aiming to a) identify additional datasets to analyse; b) explore if larger number of datasets strengthens evidence to inform the most appropriate food group composition to comprise the indicator; c) investigate whether a standard cut-off can be identified to formulate a valid dichotomous women’s dietary diversity indicator.
 
Date 2015
2016-03-04T11:02:40Z
2016-03-04T11:02:40Z
 
Type Book
 
Identifier Martin-Prevel, Y.; Allemand, P.; Wiesmann, D.; Arimond, M.; Ballard, T.; Deitchler, M.; Dop, M.C.; Kennedy, G.; Lee, W.T.K.; Moursi, M. (2015) Moving forward on choosing a standard operational indicator of women’s dietary diversity. FAO. 226 p. ISBN: 978-92-5-108883-8
978-92-5-108883-8
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72450
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format 226 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations