{"id":20317,"date":"2020-12-18T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=20317"},"modified":"2020-12-18T19:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T19:00:51","slug":"govt-strategizes-to-improve-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/govt-strategizes-to-improve-nutrition","title":{"rendered":"Govt strategizes to improve nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>THE government launched yesterday a nationwide multi-sectoral nutrition information system, targeting to strengthen analysis of existing data and provide decision-makers with evidence-based drivers of malnutrition in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Dorothy Mwaluko, Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office said after the launch of the system that data on nutrition information was of profound importance to socioeconomic growth that must not be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want actual data, which reflects the reality on the ground,\u201d she said, cautioning against cooked figures that could mislead people.<\/p>\n<p>The PS said authorities responsible must be open to all data regardless of positive or negative that could be used in decision-making processes.<\/p>\n<p>In that regard, she said the national nutrition centre must ensure the platform involved all key stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the platform included nine ministries, but the PS said more stakeholders had been left out of the platform. \u201cI urge you to explore exiting stakeholders,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said she believed that data, which would be published in the platform, would help the government and other interested parties plan ahead and set strategies for the benefit of the entire nation.<\/p>\n<p>She proposed, however, the platform to be accessible, emphasising that if there were restrictions to data access \u201cthe platform will lose its meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Director of Preventive Services in the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dr Leonard Subi, speaking on behalf of the ministry\u2019s Permanent Secretary, Prof Mabula Mchembe, said the ministry would continue supporting the production of scientific data collected from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said the ministry would support the production of timely data especially that, which targeted key populations, including infants, expectant mothers and children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry is currently working on a new health policy in line with the ministry\u2019s strategic plan. This platform will help establish sustainable and comprehensive information needed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the director, the system will also help the ministry in its periodic review of performance in tackling malnutrition in both children and adults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdults are increasingly facing non-communicable diseases which increase health burden,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed for appropriate use of official statistics in the government.<\/p>\n<p>Although Tanzania has made some good progress in addressing undernutrition in children, the pace of improvement, especially in stunted children has been slow, with data showing that the prevalence of stunting dropped from about 50 per cent in 1992 to about 34 per cent in the 2015\/16 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The current level of stunting is categorised as \u201csevere\u201d in terms of its public health significance and is above 30 per cent average observed in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, a double burden of malnutrition has emerged where undernutrition exists together with a rapidly increasing problem of diet-related non-communicable diseases, especially overweight, obesity, hypertension and type -2 diabetes that have doubled in adults during the last decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. THE government launched yesterday a nationwide multi-sectoral nutrition information system, targeting to strengthen analysis of existing data and provide decision-makers with evidence-based drivers of malnutrition in the country. Dr Dorothy Mwaluko, Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office said after the launch of the system that data on nutrition information was of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[6990,711],"class_list":["post-20317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt strategizes to improve nutrition - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/govt-strategizes-to-improve-nutrition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt strategizes to improve nutrition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. 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