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Improving dietary diversity for women and children

Participants’ handbook for improved nutrition practices












FAO. 2022. Improving dietary diversity for women and children – Participants’ handbook for improved nutrition practices. Nay Pyi Taw.





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    ဤစာအုပ်ထုတ်ဝေရခြင်း၏ အဓိကရည်ရွက်ချက်မှာ အမျိုးသမီး (အထူးသဖြင့် ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်နှင့် နို့တိုက်မိခင်များ) နှင့် မွေးစမှ အသက်နှစ်နှစ် အရွယ်ကလေးများ၏ စားသောက်မှုပုံစံများ အာဟာရပိုမို စုံလင်ကောင်းမွန်လာစေရန် ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ ဤစာအုပ်တွင်အမျိုးမျိုးသော အစားအစာတို့ကို လက်တွေ့ကျအသုံးဝင်သော နည်းလမ်းများဖြင့် စိုက်ပျိုးထုတ်လုပ်ခြင်းများ၊ စုဆောင်းခြင်းများ၊ စျေးကွက်အတွင်းပို့ဆောင်ခြင်းများ၊ သိုလှောင်သိမ်းဆည်းခြင်းများ၊ စီမံပြုပြင်ခြင်းများ ပြင်ဆင်ခြင်းများနှင့် စားသုံးခြင်းစသည့်လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်လမ်းညွှန်မှုများပါဝင်ပါသည်။
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    Women of reproductive age (WRA) are often nutritionally vulnerable because of the physiological demands of pregnancy and lactation. Requirements for most nutrients are higher for pregnant and lactating women than for adult men. The Minimum Dietary Diversity for WRA (MDD-W) 3 indicator defined and described in this document is a food group diversity indicator that has been shown to reflect one key dimension of diet quality: micronutrient adequacy, summarised across 11 micronutrients (Martin-P r ével et al., 2015). The indicator constitutes an important step towards filling the need for indicators for use in national and subnational assessments. Such indicators must be relatively simple to collect and suitable for large surveys.
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    Food group consumption misclassifications by proxy data collection methods were mainly attributable to females overreporting consumption because of respondent biases or the criterion for foods to be counted, rather than the suboptimal development of the food list in Ethiopia. To obtain precise and accurate MDD-W estimates at the (sub)national level, rigorous context-specific food list development, questionnaire pilot testing, and enumerator training are recommended to mitigate identified biases.

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