The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator was developed by FAO and partners to fill the need for a low-cost food-based indicator for assessing dietary diversity as a proxy for dietary micronutrient adequacy.

Promoting diverse diets is key to improving nutrition of women of reproductive age and can support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets for 2030. To fill the gap of food-based indicators, FAO developed the MDD-W indicator, in collaboration with several partners.

2024年8月4日 · Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) is a population-level food group-based indicator that captures dietary diversity, a core construct of healthy diets. MDD-W is used to estimate the proportion of non-pregnant women aged 15-49 years who consumed at least five

It provides a new tool for assessment, target-setting, and advocacy. The Women’s Dietary Diversity Project (WDDP) was designed to respond to the need for simple yet valid indicators of women’s diet quality, with a specific focus on micronutrient adequacy.

The guide provides users of the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator with detailed guidance on its use and application along with information on common-pitfalls. MDD-W is a dichotomous indicator of whether or not women 15-49 years of age have consumed at least five out of ten defined food groups the previous day or night.

The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) is a population-level indicator of diet diversity validated for women aged 15-49 years old. The MDD-W is a dichotomous indicator based on 10 food groups and is considered the standard for measuring population-level dietary diversity in women of reproductive age.

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.

Diversity for Women of Reproductive Age (MDD-W), a simple population-level dichotomous indicator expressed as the proportion of nonpregnant women of reproductive age who consumed at least 5 out of 10 defined food groups over the previous 24 h [11]. MDD-W was validated using 9 data sets from 6 distinct LMICs as a proxy for a minimally ...

2019年10月4日 · The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women of reproductive age (MDD-W) indicator is a food group diversity indicator that has been shown to reflect one key dimension of diet quality: micronutrient adequacy, summarised across 11 micronutrients.

The MDD-W indicator has been shown to reflect the mean probability of micronutrient adequacy across 11 micronutrients: vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin