Verger, E. O., Savy, M., Martin-Prevel, Y., Coates, J., Frongillo, E., et al. (2023). Healthy diet metrics: A suitability assessment of indicators for global and national monitoring purposes (84 p.). World Health Organization; UNICEF; FAO. https://hal.science/hal-04167728
Diets are changing everywhere, and the burden of disease associated with unhealthy diets is a worldwide concern. Measurement and monitoring of diets across countries and population groups is critical. However, there are no harmonized metrics for tracking how the healthfulness of diets around the world is evolving.
This report assesses the validity, usefulness, and fitness for purpose of existing healthy diet metrics as global and national monitoring indicators, presents a comparative assessment of selected healthy diet metrics, and discusses priorities and opportunities to improve diet monitoring. This report is an important first step of the Healthy Diets Monitoring Initiative to respond to the need for developing healthy diets metrics for assessing and monitoring diets at national and global levels.
Related: The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through their Healthy Diets Monitoring Initiative (HDMI) convened a technical expert meeting (28 November-2 December 2022, Bellagio, Italy) to reach an agreement on the recommended paths to defining metrics to compose a simple, unified, global framework for the monitoring of healthy diets.
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