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NIN Launches E-Survey To Map Nutrition, Health Status In India

by Colleen Fleiss on Feb 27 2021 10:52 PM

NIN Launches E-Survey To Map Nutrition, Health Status In India
An online e-survey in an endeavour to generate a national level participatory real time data on food intakes, dietary habits and health indicators for mapping nutrition and health status of people across the country has been launched by the National //Institute of Nutrition (NIN).
ICMR-NIN has invited people of all age groups to visit the NIN website and fill in a simple e-survey form voluntarily.

Considering that there are shifts in agricultural production, food production, availability and accessibility of foods and their consumption, changes are bound to happen in the dietary patterns and hence the health risks, it said.

"Monitoring of food intakes, nutrition and health status of population should be dynamic in nature to enable the planners, implementers and developmental partners to revise and design new nutrition and health intervention programmes. We hope this experiment of e-survey will help us fill this gap reasonably," ICMR-NIN Director, Dr Hemalatha R., said.

Immediately after filling in e-survey forms, the respondents (both adults as well as parents of children below two years) can get a quick glance of their nutritional status or the child's nutritional status based on the data provided online.

Source-IANS


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