Dietary Surveys and Guidance: From Data and Evidence to Action
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2025 | Viewed by 1054
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Nutritional epidemiology; nutrition policy; micronutrients; nutrition program evaluation
Interests: dietary assessment; dietary surveys; nutrition surveys; food composition; dietary analysis; nutritional epidemiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Dietary data are essential for the study of diet–health relationships, as an input to policy and program formulation, to evaluate the impact of actions, to inform (sub)national dietary guidelines, and to measure change in dietary patterns over time. A variety of survey types from quantitative individual surveys to household and national level data can be used to generate dietary data. Important gaps exist in documenting the application of these data types, their relative cost, and varying strengths and limitations for the various purposes mentioned, among others. Many novel methodologies and measures are under development, with promising results to enable data generation and utilization.
This Special Issue seeks original research on the development and validation of measures, methodologies and tools to assess dietary intake and their application to health research and policy and programmatic formulation, including but not limited to the development and utilization of dietary guidelines, food safety policies, agriculture or other food-related policies, and food and nutrition standards such as school meals and food fortification, among others.
Dr. Lynnette M. Neufeld
Dr. Bridget A. Holmes
Dr. Fatima Hachem
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dietary surveys
- dietary data
- dietary assessment
- dietary intake
- food intake
- nutrient intake
- 24-hour recall
- food records
- food frequency
- diet indicators
- food composition
- food policies
- nutrition policies
- dietary guidelines
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