A Summary of Methods and Data Coverage in GDD
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Objectives
- To estimate individual food and nutrient intakes worldwide by country, year, age across the lifespan, sex, education level, urban or rural residence, and pregnancy/nursing status.
- To use generated estimates to understand disease burdens, identify high-impact interventions, and evaluate and improve public health and nutrition policies.
- To create a public resource and dissemination platform for sharing intake estimates with all stakeholders in the global nutrition community
- To harmonize and publicly disseminate individual-level dietary data (24hr recall or food records) at the finest level.