National Nutrition and Mortality Survey, Haiti, January 2020: Final Report
Summary: MSPP's SMART nutrition and mortality survey of January 2020, giving departmental acute and chronic malnutrition prevalence.
Key Findings
- Chronic malnutrition across all survey domains stood at 22.7 percent, more than one child in five.
- Severe acute malnutrition was 2.1 percent nationally, just above the 2 percent threshold, and exceeded it only in the Metropolitan Area at 2.5 percent.
- Global acute malnutrition varied by department, highest in the domains reported at 6.5 and 6.0 percent.
- A pre-pandemic, pre-crisis SMART baseline, which is what makes later comparisons possible.
Full Description
The final report of the national nutrition and mortality survey conducted in January 2020 by MSPP's Direction de la Nutrition using the SMART methodology, a standardized rapid method for planning, collecting and analyzing nutrition and mortality data. It reports global and severe acute malnutrition and chronic malnutrition by survey domain, together with retrospective mortality. As a pre-pandemic, pre-crisis national measurement it is the baseline against which subsequent nutrition assessments are read.
How to cite
Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), National Nutrition and Mortality Survey, Haiti, January 2020: Final Report, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/mspp-2020-enquete-nutritionnelle-mortalite