Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLiS) country profile indicators: interpretation guide, 2nd edition
10 October 2019
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Overview
The Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLiS) was originally developed as part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Landscape Analysis on Readiness to Accelerate Action in Nutrition initiated in 2008. But it has since evolved and has been updated over the years to include other relevant indicators. Although many individual sources of data are publicly available, it can be a challenge to systematically identify, collect and organize those data, and to monitor any updates as new data become available. Therefore, the main aims of NLiS are the following:
- Bring together nutrition-related indicators in a standardized form. NLiS ensures access to a variety of nutrition indicators, as well as health, food, care, development and economic indicators related to nutrition, in a single easy-to-access and user-friendly location.
- Track changes over time and monitor progress. This comprehensive data collection system includes data from multiple time points, including both historical and recent data; also, it has the capacity to incorporate data from future time points as these become available.
- Generate easy-to-interpret country profiles. The concise country profiles include selected nutrition indicators and related indicators, and use visual presentations. They provide an easy-to-understand snapshot of key nutrition, health and development indicators at a national level, and are a powerful advocacy tool for communicating with policy-makers who might not have a background in health or nutrition.
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WHO Team
Editors
World Health Organization
Number of pages
134
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978-92-4-151695-2
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