Scaling up Dietary Data for Decision-Making in Low-Income Countries: New Technological Frontiers.

ABSTRACT: Dietary surveys in low-income countries (LICs) are hindered by low investment in the necessary research infrastructure, including a lack of basic technology for data collection, links to food composition information, and data processing. The result has been a dearth of dietary data in many LICs because of the high cost and time burden associated with dietary surveys, which are typically carried out by interviewers using pencil and paper. This study reviewed innovative dietary assessment technologies and gauged their suitability to improve the quality and time required to collect dietary data in LICs. Predefined search terms were used to identify technologies from peer-reviewed and gray literature. A total of 78 technologies were identified and grouped into 6 categories: 1) computer-

SUBMITTER: Bell W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5683006 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature