Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System (VMNIS)

VMNIS

The Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System (VMNIS), aforetime accepted as the Micronutrient Deficiency Information System (MDIS), was accustomed in 1991 afterward a appeal by the World Bloom Assembly to strengthen surveillance of micronutrient deficiencies at the all-around level. Part of WHO's authorization is to appraise the micronutrient cachet of populations,

adviser and appraise the appulse of strategies for the blockage and ascendancy of micronutrient malnutrition, and to clue accompanying trends over time. The Micronutrients Unit of the Department of Nutrition for Bloom and Development manages the VMNIS through WHO's arrangement of bounded and country offices, and in abutting accord with civic bloom authorities.

The objectives of the VMNIS are to:

Systematically retrieve and abridge abstracts on vitamin and mineral cachet of populations.

Provide Member States with abreast national, regional, and all-around assessments of the consequence of vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Clue advance appear the ambition of eliminating above vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Provide accoutrement and assets to abutment efforts of Member States and their ally for assessing vitamin and mineral comestible cachet in populations.

Currently the VMNIS includes the afterward sections:

• Micronutrients Database
• Indicators
• Laboratory Capacity
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Publications

from http://www.who.int/vmnis/en/