(MENAFN-IANS) Hyderabad, June 28 (IANS) The ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) has developed Nutrition Atlas, an online virtual interactive web application that provides access to nutrition data from different country surveys conducted over different time periods and regions from a single platform.
NIN Director Dr R. Hemalatha has launched the application which is available at or.
This interactive tool brings together a vast amount of nutrition-related data from various credible national surveys, past and present, in one place. Developed by a team led by Dr. Subba Rao M. Gavaravarapu, Head, Nutrition Communication, the web application is a one-stop calculator that allows users to access nutrition data for different time points on a single platform and visualize it in an easy-to-understand way by age, sex, physiological groups and region.
“Nutrition Atlas 2.0 has been designed as a state-of-the-art standard web-based dashboard application with an interactive user interface created using advanced technologies, allowing users to geographically visualize and compare specific nutrition indicators from multiple surveys and time points simultaneously. All data is accompanied by data sources, links, references and a concise description of data collection methods,” said Dr Hemalatha, who is also the project coordinator.
“The Nutrition Atlas concept was initially launched as a very rudimentary web application in 2017, but now with all the new data available, it has acted as a platform providing complex statistical data on the nutrition and health profile of India’s population from various sources in a single web application,” said Dr Vishnu Vardhana Rao, former director, ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS), New Delhi, who coordinated the project along with the NIN team.
The data available in Nutrition Atlas 2.0 is sourced from various national-level databases such as the National Family Health Survey, district-level household and institutional surveys, Annual Health Surveys, National Nutrition Surveillance Agency surveys, Comprehensive National Nutrition Surveys and the India Longitudinal Ageing Study.
“Time trends of nutritional status and diet-related NCDs are provided along with comparisons across different time points and databases. The charts, geographic maps and tabular data visualised in the dashboard can be downloaded in multiple file formats including PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG and PPTX for academic, research, media and education use. The ‘Nutrition Education’ component of the portal acts as a nutrition education resource for visitors with ready-to-use information on dietary recommendations, nutritional functions, sources and value of key nutrients in raw food items,” said Dr Subba Rao.
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