The World Health Organization (or, WHO) has launched what they call the e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA).
It was announced by WHO yesterday amid a regional conference in Sri Lanka regarding nutrition.
The eLibrary is WHO’s bid for preventing malnutrition around the world, and the organization also hopes that having information readily available found on their eLibrary will enable governments and persons in general who are already willing to help, but do not have the information to do so, the necessary means to help extinguish malnutrition.
The scope of the information available on the eLibrary website targets multiple forms of malnutrition. Some of these forms include vitamin and mineral deficiencies, overweight and obesity-prevention information are readily available, too.
“Several billion people are affected by one or more types of malnutrition,” says Dr Ala Alwan, WHO Assistant Director-General of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health. “Countries need access to the science and evidence-informed guidance to reduce the needless death and suffering associated with malnutrition. eLENA can greatly improve how countries cope with the terrible health threats posed by malnutrition.”
According to WHO, being underweight is the leading cause of concern in countries with large populations of poor persons. What wealthy countries take for granted, even the poor in those countries, are nutrient-loaded foods at low cost. Some of the deficiencies that normal every-day people suffer in developing countries are lack of vitamin A, iron, and zinc according to the WHO which also raises concern.
Furthermore, WHO says that iodine is one leading concern in developing countries, too. While many Americans and persons of other affluent countries take iodine for granted as it is readily available in some salt products that are ingested on a regular basis, that is not the case around the globe.
The eLibrary website can be reached at this following link: http://www.who.int/elena/en/index.html/.