Vitamin D and other micronutrient deficiency prevention: the role of data in informing national, regional, and global policy

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dc.contributor.authorCashman, Kevin D.en
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-24T16:43:24Z
dc.date.available2025-01-24T16:43:24Z
dc.date.issued2024-12-09en
dc.description.abstractThe World Health Organisation describes micronutrient deficiencies, or hidden hunger, as a form of malnutrition that occurs due to low intake and/or absorption of minerals and vitamins, putting human development and health at risk. In many cases, emphasis, effort, and even policy, revolves around the prevention of deficiency of one particular micronutrient in isolation. This is understandable as that micronutrient may be among a group of nutrients of public health concern. Vitamin D is a good exemplar. This review will highlight how the actions taken to tackle low vitamin D status have been highly dependent on the generation of new data and/or new approaches to analysis of existing data, to help develop the evidence-base, inform advice/guidelines, and in some cases, translate into policy. Beyond focus on individual micronutrients, there has also been increasing international attention around hidden hunger, or deficiencies of a range of micronutrients, which can exist unaccompanied by obvious clinical signs but can adversely affect human development and health. A widely quoted estimate of the global prevalence of hidden hunger is a staggering two billion people, but this is now over 30 years old. This review will outline how strategic data sharing and generation is seeking to address this key knowledge gap in relation to the true prevalence of hidden hunger in Europe, a key starting point towards defining sustainable and cost-effective, food-based strategies for its prevention. The availability of data on prevalence and food-based strategies can help inform public policy to eradicate micronutrient deficiency in Europe.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationCashman, K.D. (20024) 'Vitamin D and other micronutrient deficiency prevention: the role of data in informing national, regional and global policy', Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665124007626en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665124007626en
dc.identifier.eissn1475-2719en
dc.identifier.endpage11en
dc.identifier.issn0029-6651en
dc.identifier.journaltitleProceedings of the Nutrition Societyen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16894
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the Nutrition Societyen
dc.rights© 2024, the Authors. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Nutrition Society. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectVitamin Den
dc.subjectMicronutrient deficienciesen
dc.subjectHidden hungeren
dc.subjectPrevalenceen
dc.subjectDataen
dc.titleVitamin D and other micronutrient deficiency prevention: the role of data in informing national, regional, and global policyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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