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Dietary assessment in Africa: Integration with innovative technology

机译：非洲的饮食评估：与创新技术的整合

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Dietary assessment remains an important factor in understanding dietary practices and nutritional status and, helps inform policy and practice aimed at improving health and developmental outcomes in many populations. Adequate dietary intake is the basis of good health. Poor nutrition is a major limitation to growth and development throughout Africa. With poor access to clinics and hospitals, measuring dietary intake and nutritional status is one of the most efficient and informative means of understanding the health of a community. Further, the rise of both under- and overnutrition throughout Africa has created a double burden of disease, increasing the risk of both infectious and chronic diseases, making the need for a more specific dietary assessment critical for the prevention and treatment of nutrition related illnesses. In Africa and other less-developed regions, dietary assessment has often relied on respondents to recall types and amounts of foods consumed by populations of interest. Although use of recall methodology remains to be the most feasible strategy in these settings, there is great need to develop more creative and less dependent means of accurate dietary assessment, which are culturally suitable in impoverished regions of the world, and particularly among low-literacy populations. New technology-based methods that assist in more accurate and reliable dietary assessment are beginning to emerge. Most of these innovations are based on using technology to assist dietary recall. Such methods are shown to be effective, but still do not entirely remedy the challenges related to accurate and valid recall and measurement. The expanding use of such technology in these regions offers an opportunity for exploring the benefits and general acceptance of using technology to improve health. Thus, this paper reviews the literature concerning current diet assessment methods used in Africa as well as the implications for new and innovative methods and discusses the potential for utilization of technologically-based dietary assessment methods in Africa.
机译：饮食评估仍然是理解饮食习惯和营养状况的重要因素，并且有助于为旨在改善许多人群的健康和发展成果的政策和实践提供信息。充足的饮食摄入是身体健康的基础。营养不良是整个非洲增长和发展的主要限制。由于无法到达诊所和医院，测量饮食摄入量和营养状况是了解社区健康的最有效，最有用的手段之一。此外，整个非洲营养不足和营养过剩的加剧造成了疾病的双重负担，增加了传染病和慢性病的风险，因此需要更具体的饮食评估对于预防和治疗与营养有关的疾病至关重要。在非洲和其他欠发达地区，饮食评估经常依赖于受访者回忆感兴趣人群食用的食物的类型和数量。尽管在这些情况下使用召回方法仍然是最可行的策略，但仍非常需要开发更具创造性和依赖性较小的精确饮食评估手段，这些手段在文化上适合于世界贫困地区，尤其是低文化程度人群人口。基于新技术的方法有助于更准确，更可靠的饮食评估。这些创新中的大多数都是基于使用技术来辅助饮食召回的。这些方法虽然有效，但仍不能完全解决与准确有效的召回和测量有关的挑战。这些技术在这些地区的广泛使用为探索使用技术改善健康的益处和普遍接受提供了机会。因此，本文回顾了有关非洲当前使用的饮食评估方法的文献以及对新方法和创新方法的影响，并讨论了在非洲利用基于技术的饮食评估方法的潜力。

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