Safe, healthy and sustainable diets
The cross-cutting unit on Safe, Healthy and Sustainable Diets coordinates and brings together relevant inputs from other units in the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety to strengthen the coherence and alignment of WHO’s guidance, policy actions and provision of scientific advice and technical support to the Regional and Country Offices as well as to Member States and support the delivery of increased impact at the country level to achieve the 1 billion target of healthier populations.
This Cross-Cutting Unit develops evidence-informed WHO guidance on:
- diet and health to reduce the burden of diet- and nutrition-related health problems, including obesity and diet-related NCDs; and
- policy actions to create enabling food environment which promotes safe, healthy, and sustainable diets, and technical tools, such as nutrient profile models for different policy applications, to ensure WHO’s guidance and support are solidly based on science.
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All →Global nutrition targets 2030: topical briefs on maternal, infant and young child nutrition
Recognizing that the world is not on track to meet all of the 2025 global nutrition targets, WHO Member States, during the 78th World Health Assembly in...
Global nutrition targets 2030: child wasting brief
Wasting, or being too thin for one’s age, is defined as a weight-for-height that is more than two standard deviations below the World Health Organization...
Global nutrition targets 2030: childhood overweight brief
Children aged 0 to 5 years are classified as overweight if their weight-for-length/height or BMI-for-age falls over 2 standard deviations above the median...
Global nutrition targets 2030: low birth weight brief
Low birth weight is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as weight at birth less than 2500 g (5.5 lb). Low birth weight continues to be a significant...
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