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Healthy Lives: Everyone, Everywhere

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:22:43 +0000

Good health is the most precious thing anyone can have,” says Dr TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “When people are healthy, they can learn, work, and support themselves and their families. When they are sick, nothing else matters. Families and communities fall behind. That’s why WHO is so committed to ensuring good health for all.”

World Health Day

April 7th marks the birth anniversary of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and along with drives worldwide attention by spreading the message of the importance of global health each year.

Ranging from imperative issues such as food safety, diabetes, depressions, etc., this year the World Health Day embarks the mission of people-centered care irrespective of their financial hardships. The 2019 theme envisions the Universal Health Coverage (UHC), i.e., health for all. There are millions of people who have no access at all to healthcare. Majority of the populations are forced to choose between healthcare and other daily needs such as food, clothing, and shelter. In India, a lot of efforts need to be put in to ensure adequate medicines, affordable health policies, and financing strategies to enable everyone to get access to equal healthcare. “Universal” in UHC means “for all”, without discrimination, leaving no one behind, i.e. providing healthcare facilities which are

• Accessible
• Affordable
• Available
• Appropriate
• Adequate

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“Universal health coverage is also about ensuring access to essential quality care and financial protection,” says Dr. Mahjour. It aids in enhancing people’s health at large and increasing their life expectancy. Under this, many countries are protected from epidemics and the risk of hunger. This paves a way for new jobs, enhanced economic growth, and gender equality.

To make the phenomenon of Universal health coverage achievable globally, there should be concrete roadmaps which highlight the gaps and obstacles patients face in accessing proper healthcare. This can be done only when there are identified challenges, key actions and sustainable goals to be taken care of.

• There must be a holistic range of health and related services
• Quality care is a must
• There must be an end to discrimination and stigma
• The healthcare products and services should be affordable
• Sustainable investment in health is another prerequisite

Where India Stands – The New “Health-Y” Politics

The much-awaited general election will be held in India in April 2019 when the Indian voters will go to the polls. It is anticipated that whichever government comes into play will surely set a course for newer and better health policy.

Recent researches reveal an alarmingly rapid epidemiological transition. The occurrence of diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer are rapidly on a rise. For instance, since 1990, the number of Indians with diabetes has increased from 26 million to approximately 65 million to date. The incidence of all cancers has increased by 28% between 1990 and 2016, with new cases of cancer emerging each year. India not only seems terribly engulfed in the swirling epidemic of non-communicable diseases, but it is also in the grip of a mental health emergency. The rate of global suicide deaths is speculated to be 1.1 times higher among women and 1.4 times higher among men than global averages in 2016.

It would be unfair if we highlight only the negative side of the picture. After many years of neglect, the Government of India has finally recognized and considered the perils of public discontent relating to health. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has initiated a new programme called Ayushman Bharat, which along with focusing on preventive health, emphasizes affordable health.

Ayushman Bharat majorly comprises two new flagship programmes. First, the creation of 1.5 lakh health and wellness centers across the whole country. These centers will primarily be responsible for providing primary healthcare facilities to provide health coverage for all. The second includes the National Health Protection Mission (NHPM)—a system of health insurance that intends to cover 500 million people. It covers secondary and tertiary care for the poorest and most vulnerable strata of society. These twin programmes together must help India improve access to quality health services and reduce out-of-pocket health expenditures.

Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister who has grasped the importance of health for Indian citizens and has prioritized universal health coverage as part of his political platform. “Modicare” as it is sometimes addressed to, can become a decisive issue in the upcoming general elections.

Way Forward for a Healthy Nation
Does Universal health Coverage still seem a distant goal in India!

The scant funding from the Central and state governments seems the root cause and the major hindrance in achieving UHC. The Central Government has recently announced a massive expansion of healthcare facilities.

Through its ambitious National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), the Government of India provides a framework for universal health coverage in which it prioritizes healthcare delivery and its easy access. By reducing out-of-pocket payments, expanding service coverage, improving quality of services, and ultimately advancing UHC, countries and in particular, India with schemes like NHPS in place can transform the health of their people and bring drastic changes in society. As stated by WHO Director-General: “No one should have to choose between death and financial hardship. No one should have to choose between buying medicine and buying food.” UHC indeed is a way to go ahead.

About the author

Dr. Jasmeet Kaur is a Doctorate in Immunology and whenever she gets free time from the full-time job she loves to read and write about imperative issues in healthcare.

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Sweden-India Collaboration in Health Sector

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:11:21 +0000

An interview with H.E. Klas Molin, Swedish Ambassador to India done by Sachin Gaur, Director Operations at InnovatioCuris for InnoHEALTH Magazine.

H.E. Klas Molin has been serving as the Ambassador of Sweden to India since 2017. Prior to this, he served as the Ambassador and Chief of Protocol at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm, Sweden.

He also held various positions at Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. He earned his Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (USA).

Q. What is the Swedish interest in India and your priority topics for the Indian health sector?

We have a very fruitful bilateral collaboration with India in the health sector, beginning with our development cooperation in areas such as mother- and child health, midwifery, and work against communicable diseases. Cooperation has now increased to mutually beneficial partnerships. For the past ten years, we have had a Memorandum of Understanding on Health between our countries and next year we are going to celebrate this with an India-Swedish Health Year.

Many collaborations of mutual interests are ongoing and being planned that focus in a wide range of areas like antimicrobial resistance, elderly care, pharmaceuticals, non-communicable diseases and digital innovations including artificial intelligence, where the emphasis will be on knowledge transfer, capacity building and skills training.

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Q. An MoU was signed during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Sweden on 17th April 2018 at Stockholm on “India-Sweden Innovation Partnership for a Sustainable Future”. Can you share the progress with respect to healthcare?

We are in the process of putting out calls and setting up incubators which will encourage close collaboration between the innovators in Sweden and India. Solutions are only sustainable if both sides contribute and share a strong sense of ownership. Progress has already been made in laying the groundwork for such partnerships within the sectors of clean energy and smart cities, and we hope to launch initiatives targeted to healthcare during the coming year. The Embassy will be sure to keep you posted.

InnovatioCuris signed MoU with Swecare

Q. India and Sweden will complete 10 years of Partnership in Health Sector in 2019, any plans in store for 2019?

India and Sweden plan to commemorate the ten years completion of the MoU in 2019. We hope to enhance our collaborations in new areas with new stakeholders like the new AIIMS that have come up in some states. We also hope to have high-level visits from both sides to enhance policy dialogues and bilateral relations. Some of the collaborative partners are also developing new plans to strengthen their cooperation.

Q. What can Indian healthcare businesses gain from Swedish healthcare businesses?

Any suggestions on possible partnerships? It is not so much what the Indian healthcare system can gain, but rather, how can we join forces to overcome common challenges. Swedish businesses have been in India for many years. Within healthcare, we have AstraZeneca, who recently celebrated 40 years in India, and Getinge who has been investing in the Indian ecosystem for many years. Their focus, like many others, has been in building the capacity of their employees and the users of their products to increase efficiency. The businesses also bring with them lessons from Sweden so that we can help India leapfrog outdated technology. Sweden also ranks high in most innovation indexes – it can be argued that our relatively small size makes collaborations outside traditional silos necessary in order to succeed. Public actors, private companies, and institutions often work together in finding innovative solutions to serious healthcare challenges. We would like to work with India to build spaces for similar ecosystems across India.

Q. What are the common areas for healthcare research and ongoing partnerships for both sides to collaborate?

Under the MoU, there are extensive collaborations between public authorities and universities from both countries. For instance, the Swedish Public Health Agency, Medical Product Agency and Forte (the Swedish Research Council on Health, Working Life and Welfare) have an ongoing collaboration with their Indian counterparts. There are ongoing discussions on extending collaborations with new players like our National Board of Health and Welfare and E-Health Authority as well as between our medical universities such as Karolinska Institute, Uppsala University and the different AIIMS.

Through these collaborations, we hope to demonstrate best practices and technologies. We have research calls in different areas for example with EU in big data and artificial intelligence for monitoring health status and quality of life after cancer treatment, under JPIAMR call on diagnostics and surveillance 2019.

Innovation-the UNNATI way is an India-Sweden Innovators for strategic business development to address global challenges. It is an industry-supported initiative coordinated by Business Sweden in collaboration with AGNIi-Invest India and ATAL Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog.

Q. You have signed for skilling nurses on infection control, wound care and diagnostics with Govt of Maharashtra in 2016. What is your experience of the last two years?

I believe the overall experience has been good. Business Sweden will, however, be able to provide more information on this as they have been coordinating this activity.

Q. Anti-Microbial Resistance is an important issue right now. How do you propose the Swedish Govt. support in this area?

The Swedish Public Health Agency and the Indian National Centre for Disease Control have an ongoing collaboration with a focus on antimicrobial resistance. Additionally, the Indian Ministry of Health has proposed that Sweden collaborate closely with a new-AIIMS and its associated Health and Wellness Centres. AIIMS-Jodhpur has been suggested to us and we are currently considering the scope of such collaboration.

Q. Artificial Intelligence seems to be a focus area for Sweden in the Health Sector?

Do you see any collaboration in this field with Indian providers? This is a hot topic all over the world right now. I know India is well ahead in AI technology while Sweden has more long-term experience in extracting relevant information from vast amounts of data. Our patient registries have enabled us to have one of the highest cancer survival rates in the world and that is only one example. I believe we will see some collaborations in the coming year, especially as you are arranging a delegation to Sweden addressing this exact topic in May next year. I will follow this progress closely.

Q. What is your message for InnoHEALTH Magazine readers? How can we, as a platform, support India-Swedish collaboration?

I congratulate InnovatioCuris for collaborating with Swecare Foundation and Swedish Medtech in facilitating innovative and promising solutions for India. Sweden has a long tradition of developing innovations in healthcare. We also have a well-functioning public sector, together with extensive health data registries, biobanks and digital connectivity infrastructure, that provides great opportunities to develop innovative, demand-driven, competitive solutions for healthcare. Exciting opportunities abound in an environment dedicated to medical innovation, drug discovery and pharmaceutical commercialization. Sweden and India have lots to share and learn from each other!

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Global nutrition needs swift efforts

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:05:15 +0000

Global nutrition crisis threatens human development, demands ‘critical step change’ in response – Report

Women’s health in India has emerged as a major nutritional challenge with the country wrestling largest number of anemic women in the world and the other having to tackle diseases related with obesity –that is on the rise, warns the latest Global Nutrition Report, 2017. It says there is malnutrition among adults globally.A total of 614 million women aged between 15–49 years were affected by anemia. India had the largest number of women impacted, followed by China, Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia.In India and Pakistan, more than half of all women of reproductive age have anemia.

It is a global issue that many women in high-income countries also suffer from; prevalence rates may be as high as 18% in countries such as France and Switzerland. Obesity (body mass index (BMI) ≥30) is most common among North American men (33%) and women (34%), and lowest among Asian and African men (6%) and Asian women (9%).

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Overweight and obesity are increasing in almost every country and are a real concern for many low and middle income countries, not just high-income ones.The problem affects more women than men in all the world’s regions, reflecting a wider global gender disparity.

Hypertension is most common (28%) among African women and European men, and lowest (11%) among North American women. A quarter of Asian and Latin American men suffered from raised blood pressure in 2015. While more women worldwide are affected by obesity, the case for diabetes and hypertension is mixed. There is more diabetes among men than women in Asia, Europe, Northern America and Oceania, and more hypertension among men than women in all regions except Africa.

The world now faces a serious nutrition- related challenge, whether stemming from under nutrition or obesity, states Global Nutrition Report 2017.

The report found the vast majority (88%) of countries studied face a serious burden of two or three of these forms of malnutrition. It highlights the damaging impact this burden is having on broader global development efforts.

“The world can’t afford not to act on nutrition or we risk putting the brakes on human development as a whole,” said Corinna Hawkes, Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report’s Independent Expert Group and Director of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University London. “We will not achieve any of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) by the 2030 deadline unless there is a critical step change in our response to malnutrition in all its forms. Equally, we need action throughout the goals to tackle the many causes of malnutrition.”

The Report calls for nutrition to be placed at the heart of efforts to end poverty, fight disease, raise educational standards and tackle climate change.

“We know that a well-nourished child is one-third more likely to escape poverty,” said Jessica Fanzo, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food and Agriculture Policy Ethics at Johns Hopkins University and Global Nutrition Report CoChair.

At least 41 million children under five are overweight, with the problem affecting high and lower income countries alike
At least 10 million children in Africa are now classified as overweight
One-third of North American men (33%) and women (34%) are obese
155 million under-fives are stunted; Africa is the only region where absolute numbers are rising, due to population growth
52 million children worldwide are defined as wasted, meaning they do not weigh enough for their height

In all 140 countries studied, the report found ‘significant burdens’ of three important forms of malnutrition used as an indicator of broader trends:
1) childhood stunting-children too short for their age due to lack of nutrients, suffering irreversible damage to brain capacity,
2) anemia in women of reproductive age-a serious condition that can have long term health impacts for mother and child, and
3) overweight adult women-a rising concern as women are disproportionately affected by the global obesity epidemic.

“They will learn better in school, be healthier and grow into productive contributors to their economies. Good nutrition provides the brainpower, the ‘grey matter infrastructure’ to build the economies of the future.”

Rates of undernutrition in children are decreasing, the report said, with recent gains in some countries. But global progress is not fast enough to meet internationally agreed nutrition goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target 2.2 to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030.

EmornUdomkesmalee, Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report’s Independent Expert Group and Senior Advisor, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Thailand, said, “It’s not just about more money – although that is important – it’s also about breaking down silos and addressing malnutrition in a more joined-up way alongside all the other drivers of development. There’s a powerful multiplier effect here that we have to harness.”

The report found that overweight and obesity are on the rise in almost every country.With 2 billion of the world’s 7 billion people are now overweight or obese and a less than 1 per cent chance of meeting the global target of halting the rise in obesity and diabetes by 2025.

Rising rates of anemiaamong women of reproductive age are also cited as a concern with almost one in three women affected worldwide and no country on track to meet global targets. “Historically, maternal anemia and child undernutrition have been separate problems to obesity and noncommunicable diseases,” said MsFanzo. “The reality is they are intimately connected and driven by inequalities everywhere in the world. That’s why governments and their partners need to tackle them holistically, not as distinct problems.” Donor funding for nutrition rose by just two per cent in 2015, to US$867 million, representing a slight fall in the overall percentage of global aid. The report says funding needs to be ‘turbo charged’ and calls for a tripling of global investments in nutrition, to $70bn for over next 10 years to tackle childhood stunting, wasting and anemia and to increase breastfeeding rates. Crucially, donors are only spending 0.01 per cent of official development assistance on diet related Non-Communicable Diseases, a ‘disturbingly low’ level.

Pledges to invest in nutrition must be ‘concrete’ and ‘acted upon’, not ‘empty rhetoric’, the report said. Of the 203 commitments made at the Nutrition for Growth Summit in 2013 those most likely to be classified as ‘on course’ are the UN agencies’ at 86 per cent, followed by ‘other organisations’ at 75 per cent and NGO policy commitments at 73 per cent.

The report found there is a critical need for better data on nutrition – many countries don’t have enough data to track the nutrition targets they signed up to and to identify who is being left behind.

Report says the world consumes too much salt. Intake varies by region, but no region had intakes within the WHO-recommended limits of 2 g/day of sodium. Asia has the highest intake (4.3 g/day of sodium), followed by Europe (4.0 g/day of sodium). At national level, only seven countries (Burundi, Comoros, Gabon, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi and Rwanda) have sodium intakes within desirable limit).

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Menace of Non-Communicable diseases: A far reaching impact

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:49:26 +0000

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent a major peril to the economic growth and development and human health of any nation. The economic loss to India is pegged at $4.58 trillion before 2030 due to NCDs and mental health. The vicious cycle of high out-of-pocket expenditure on health, poor economic growth, workforce productivity loss and rising disease burden are intricately linked to the rising menace of NCDs.

The South Asian region─with a population of more than 1.7 billion─is experiencing a marked demographic transition─characterised by declining birth and death rates and an increasingly aging population. This increase in longevity has also been accompanied by a rise in the prevalence of NCDslike diabetes (78 million cases in 2015). India has the second highest number of diabetic patients in the world, at about 69 million, after China, and this figure is likely to reach 140 million by 2040 and almost half of them remain un-diagnosed. A recent study showed that seven out of ten diabetics in India – especially those in the 20-24 age group – do not take enough steps to control their blood sugar level – even after diagnosis.

The Economic Impact of Diabetes, As per a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Public Health, the number of diabetes patients in the country is likely to go up to 120 million in next 20 years as against the current 70 million. On an average a diabetic patient spends about INR 25,000 annually to manage the disease and its associated complications. Beyond placing a financial strain on the patient due to treatment expenditures, poor management of diabetes significantly impacts the patients’ quality of life: it may lead to loss of productivity due to multiple hospital visits, elevating rates of absenteeism, diminishing the energy and focus of a productive workforce, and depleting critical workplace skills ultimately leading to reduced mobility and span of life. Diabetes related complications like kidney failure, nerve damage along with obesity, dyslipidemia and hypertension make diabetes management quite complex for clinicians.

In this context, it becomes important that healthcare professionals have access to more educational resources to remain updated about how to tackle the diabetes epidemic. But due to scarcity of time and high patient load in South Asian healthcare facilities, medical practitioners find it very difficult to update their knowledge. Remaining updated can help clinicians offer better diabetes management options to their patients.

A Possible Solution: E-Learning Courses e-Learning programs can help clinicians in acquiring skills required to address the growing complex management of diseases. E-learning courses can be tailored to fit the clinicians schedule, delivering content right at the moment when it is demanded by the doctor. Interactive e-learning programs also offer peer to peer learning, thus enabling clinicians to discuss learning from key cases. Those e-learning programs which also offer the opportunity of contact classes, offer a richer and immersive learning experience.

An effective e-learning program will incorporate guidelines for determining the correct and appropriate blend of instructional strategies, including on-line learning, face-to-face instruction, and skill demonstrations, thus facilitating the learning of a clinician far beyond than traditional learning materials. Unlike traditional CMEs, e-learning can be designed to be self-paced, and research has indicated that e-learning reduces the learning time by at least 25-60% when compared to traditional learning, which can be an added advantage for time-constrained clinicians.

Intelligent e-learning management systems also adapt and learn from the learners’ aptitude and change and deliver a personalized learning experience. The right mix of video, audio, and text content formats help to ensure that delivery of content is mapped to the medium most appropriate & relevant to concept development.

Keeping in mind these perspectives, a Six Months Certification Course in Diabetes in partnership with Fortis C-DOC Hospital was launched by BMJ in South Asia. This course is endorsed by the Royal College of Physicians. This is a six months online learning course offered in two formats: with hands-on training and online-only – to cater to the learning needs of clinicians in South Asia.

Courses such as these will go a long way in knowledge & skill upgradation for clinicians in areas which the country faces a high disease burden. Such courses are clinician-centric and learner-led, and have been developed keeping in mind the real and on-ground challenges faced by doctors in South Asia.

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Innovation for affordable – A medical device persepective

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 06:24:12 +0000

New technology and its implementation will be effective if only it contributes to bringing the cost of health and medical care at a reasonable level.

Moderator: Eur Ing Muthu Singaram
Panelists:
• Stephen Victor
• Dr. Karthik Anantharaman
• Biten Kathrani
• Ashim Roy

Affordability on its own isn’t going to solve the problem of health care if we do not address other issues, voiced the panelists of the third session based on their professional experience and expertise. Costing alone isn’t the only factor in making healthcare affordable; as what is affordable to some may not be the same yard stick of affordability for others.

Intelligently moderated by the guest from IIT Madras Eur Ing Muthu Singaram, with intense participation by the audience and focused response by the panelists, the session highlighted standard problems that are universal in nature and are a concern for industry representatives from the emerging markets and the industry leaders as well.

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Highlighting his concern, Biten Kathrani of Boston Scientific voiced his opinion saying, “Affordability today is very important not just for emerging markets but for the global health care environment. But in the guise of affordability and much talked about affordability, one of the critical things that we have forgotten to do in health care is to figure out challenges associated with awareness, access and adoption. So today we must look beyond affordability and not ignore awareness, access and adoption.”

Addressing the flip side of the subject of beating around about affordability, Dr. Karthik Anantharaman of BPL Medical Technologies highlighted, “Traditionally developing medical devices is very capital intensive with years of R&D that adds to the cost and makes it very unviable for the product to be of any commercial viability. The best way forward is to produce products that are of need by the doctors and not indulge in ambitious research programs that can take as long as 4-5 years of development time and just the research alone can cost a couple of millions of dollars.”

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Highlighting the concern of the market towards the newly-launched products and services, another panelist Stephen Victor said, “Life cycle of a diagnostic device is not predictable as some competition may arrive in the market within six months of its launch, with additional facilities, extra benefits and probably at a cheaper cost. And there are other factors that can contribute to failure of the product despite it being very innovative and technically superior. For this, you need Curators for startups or need big corporates to invest in service and maintenance for new innovative products.”

With an emphatic conclusion about the worries of many of the startup aspirants, M.V. Amaresh Kumar, who works for Abdul Kalam Institute in Andhra Pradesh, a quasi-government establishment, emphasized, “Cost of innovation is always high as it involves immense research and investment in resources with no guarantee of market share. Government establishments like the Andhra Metric Zone and Abdul Kalam Institute have come to the rescue of such innovators who need hand-holding by someone for making new products commercially viable and relieving the inventor of such mental burden. Only such a marriage between innovators and non-profit establishments can ensure innovations to be introduced at reasonable price – not necessarily at a cheap rate, but affordable.”

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“Providing complex solutions to simple problems is very easy but providing simple solutions to a complex problem is challenging. The choice of appropriate antibiotics is the simplest of solutions to a complex problem that is caused by regular intake of antibiotics especially in the case of ailments like TB, Cancer or most of the communicable diseases.”

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“Human resources is the greatest asset. But scratch a problem and you will find a human at the bottom of the problem. Aim is to motivate and improve the knowledge skills and attitude of the employees, which will benefit the system. If you want to be successful, its very simple: Know what you are doing; Love what you are doing; and believe in what you are doing. Future of management is that there’ll be more problems than human capacity to handle that. Motivation and new technology is the way forward to face these problems.”

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INDIA'S NUTRITION ATLAS GOES LIVE

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 05:23:24 +0000

The Hyderabad-based National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) has developed the country’s first Nutrition Atlas to provide all the relevant data and information about nutrition.

The Nutrition Atlas provides information and data on nutritional status of population groups at national and state levels, along with an overview of nutrition-related deficiencies, disorders and prevalence levels in various parts of the country along-with information on nutrients, nutrient rich foods, nutritional deficiency disorders and a host of other topics.

The portal also includes information on nutrition rich foods and nutri-guide for various nutrients, minerals, essential amino-acids, fatty acids, dietary fibers and proteins, along with their biochemical cutoffs, recommended dietary allowances, signs and symptoms and dietary sources.

The Atlas is interactive and displays information in the form a user may select and has been developed through a long drawn, cohesive and technical exercise by a multidisciplinary team in the bioinformatics division of NIN. It makes use of publicly available data sources like reports of National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau, National Family Health Survey, World Health Organisation and other public databases. The Dashboard acts like an information management tool, helping the user track data on under nutrition, over nutrition, overweight, obesity and communicable and noncommunicable diseases. It can also provide different time trends on each of these parameters. The development conducted the research under ICMR.

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