Accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has witnessed significant reductions in child mortality, undernutrition, and communicable diseases, but more substantial and faster progress is still needed. The rise in obesity and in noncommunicable diseases, particularly in urban areas, is alarming and requires urgent policy and programm...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2020
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| author | Baye, Kaleab Hirvonen, Kalle |
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| description | Ethiopia has witnessed significant reductions in child mortality, undernutrition, and communicable diseases, but more substantial and faster progress is still needed. The rise in obesity and in noncommunicable diseases, particularly in urban areas, is alarming and requires urgent policy and programmatic attention. Unhealthy diets drive both undernutrition and obesity and are the underlying cause of significant proportion of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Maintaining the relatively high breastfeeding practices and increasing the diversity of diets will be critical to improving nutrition in Ethiopia. Implementation of effective nutrition messaging that shapes consumer behavior to adopt healthy dietary patterns, while bridging gaps in both the reach and the quality of such messaging is warranted. The health extension program, which is the cornerstone of the transformation of the health sector, may need to be redesigned in a way that improves its reach and the quality of the services it provides and minimizes the risk of burnout of frontline health workers. Interventions focusing on making healthy diets available, affordable, and accessible are urgently needed. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1432292025-11-06T05:44:30Z Accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in Ethiopia Baye, Kaleab Hirvonen, Kalle child nutrition health health policies malnutrition nutrition diet overweight trends obesity Ethiopia has witnessed significant reductions in child mortality, undernutrition, and communicable diseases, but more substantial and faster progress is still needed. The rise in obesity and in noncommunicable diseases, particularly in urban areas, is alarming and requires urgent policy and programmatic attention. Unhealthy diets drive both undernutrition and obesity and are the underlying cause of significant proportion of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Maintaining the relatively high breastfeeding practices and increasing the diversity of diets will be critical to improving nutrition in Ethiopia. Implementation of effective nutrition messaging that shapes consumer behavior to adopt healthy dietary patterns, while bridging gaps in both the reach and the quality of such messaging is warranted. The health extension program, which is the cornerstone of the transformation of the health sector, may need to be redesigned in a way that improves its reach and the quality of the services it provides and minimizes the risk of burnout of frontline health workers. Interventions focusing on making healthy diets available, affordable, and accessible are urgently needed. 2020-04-01 2024-05-22T12:12:38Z 2024-05-22T12:12:38Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143229 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133765 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Baye, Kaleab; and Hirvonen, Kalle. 2020. Accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in Ethiopia. ESSP Working Paper 144. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133759. |
| spellingShingle | child nutrition health health policies malnutrition nutrition diet overweight trends obesity Baye, Kaleab Hirvonen, Kalle Accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in Ethiopia |
| title | Accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | accelerating progress in improving diets and nutrition in ethiopia |
| topic | child nutrition health health policies malnutrition nutrition diet overweight trends obesity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143229 |
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