Integrating Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) into multitopic surveys
| dc.creator | FAO; | |
| dc.date | 2024-03-16T01:15:17Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-03-16T01:15:17Z | |
| dc.date | 2024 | |
| dc.date | 2024-03-05T07:33:17.0000000Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T22:37:06Z | |
| dc.description | Poor diets are a leading cause of death and disease, yet a chronic lack of dietary data jeopardizes effective, evidence-based actions on nutrition. The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator is a simple, food group-based indicator that can be integrated into existing large-scale surveys with relative ease, enabling the collection of valuable data on dietary diversity. This can in turn inform policies and interventions to improve nutrition in low- and middle-income countries. As a low-cost, easy-to-collect and easy-to-interpret indicator, MDD-W has already been successfully integrated into several large-scale surveys, including the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Gallup© World Poll. Including MDD-W in more multitopic surveys will strengthen the global knowledge base on diets, and help countries monitor and achieve their nutrition goals. | |
| dc.format | 10p. | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CC9412EN | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.fao.org/3/cc9412en/cc9412en.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/257985 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | FAO ; | |
| dc.rights | FAO | |
| dc.title | Integrating Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) into multitopic surveys | |
| dc.title | Simple dietary data for better nutrition | |
| dc.type | Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet |