1. Public Health Nutrition

The COVID-19 pandemic has had and continues to have major impact on public health. As our understanding of the virus has increased so has the research into how best to manage public health.

Sources of curated resources are available to support dietetic practice. NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health has collated a variety of COVID-19 Nutrition Resources (webinars, articles, blogs and publications) focused on prevention and treatment of COVID-19 (https://www.nnedpro.org.uk/covid-19nutrition-resources).

Type of information	Country/ Organisation	Details	Evidence Guide
Type of information	Country/ Organisation	Details	Systematic and transparent approach to development¹ (low/med/high)	Ready for use in practice²(yes/no)	Information source	Level of evidence³
Review	UK	Nutrition, immunity and COVID-19	Low	No	Peer reviewed publications	III
Review	USA	Avoidance of vitamin D deficiency to slow the COVID-19 pandemic	Low	No	Peer reviewed publications	III
Article	Ireland	Optimisation of Vitamin D Status for Enhanced Immuno-protection against Covid-19; and also the summaries for the Healthcare Professionals and for the Public	Med	No	Peer review publication	III C
Position statement	Spain	Vitamin D supplementation during social estrangement by COVID-19: https://academianutricionydietetica.org/NOTICIAS/VitaminaD-COVID19.pdf	Low	Yes	Peer reviewed literature	IV
Position paper	Spain	Food and nutrition recommendations against the coronavirus crisis, with recommendations for healthy people who are in confinement, pregnant and nursing, people with mild symptomatology in COVID-19 and critical patients in ICU. Spanish version – see here	Low	Yes	Varied includes peer review publications	IV
Advice	UK	Eating well during COVID-19 general healthy eating advice	Low	Yes	Unclear	V
Advice	UK	Public infographics for older persons health	Low	Yes	Unclear	V
Policy brief	FAO	Food system policy priorities and programmatic actions for healthy diets in the context of COVID-19	Low	No	Published grey literature	V
Advice	Hungary	Infographics for the general public - CoronaVirus Nutrition Guide 1, 2 and 3.	Low	Yes	Unclear	V
Guideline	Turkey	Recommendations on Nutrition and COVID-19 is a guideline in Turkish and English	Low	Yes	Published grey literature	V
Guidance	WHO	Guidelines on healthy eating during quarantine: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/nutrition/news/news/2020/3/food-and-nutrition-during-self-quarantine-what-to-choose-and-how-to-eat-healthily	Low	Yes	Unclear	V
Recommendations	UN	Food environments in COVID-19 pandemic: impacts and positive actions to deliver sustainable healthy diets for all	Low	No	Unclear	V
Advice	Germany	FAQs of cancer patients about staying Home, food, etc during COVID-19. https://www.was-essen-bei-krebs.de/2020/04/02/coronavirus-tipps-fuer-die-versorgung-und-die-zeit-zu-hause/ https://www.was-essen-bei-krebs.de/2020/04/02/coronavirus-tipps-fuer-die-versorgung-und-die-zeit-zu-hause/	Low	Yes	Grey literature	V
Advice	Portugal	National Programme for Healthy Eating and the General Directorate of Health developed materials in the area of Food and Nutrition to inform the population (healthy people who are in confinement, pregnant and older people (https://nutrimento.pt/activeapp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Alimentac%CC%A7a%CC%83o-e-COVID-19.pdf), children (https://nutrimento.pt/activeapp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Alimentac%CC%A7a%CC%83o-sauda%CC%81vel-on-em-casa.pdf)	Low	Yes	Unclear	V
Advice	EUFIC	COVID-19 package to inform people on the relation between food & the pandemic: Food & coronavirus: what you need to know?; 7 tips to keep healthy while in isolation or quarantine; 10 tips to eat healthy during isolation or quarantine	Low	Yes	Unclear	V
Advice	Greece	Nutrition and excercise recommendations for the quarantine, proposed by the Greek Ministry of Health (General Secretary of Public Health,National Committee of Nutrition Policy) with the title "Stay home, stay fit, eat healthy".	Low	Yes	Unclear	V
Advice	DG SANTE	Questions and Answers on COVID-19 and food safety.	Low	Yes	Peer reviewed and grey literature	V
Advice	Greece	The Hellenic Dietetic Association’s (HDA) Groups of Experts have developed an informative public campaign that aims to help people follow a healthy diet and to control potential overeating which could affect their body weight during the lockdown period resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Download the list of materials in Greek developed by HDA’s Expert Groups here.				V
Advice	Hungary	Advice for healthy shopping and eating during the pandemic	Low	Yes	Unclear	V
¹ Systematic and transparent approach to development: low = no methods described; medium = short descriptions on methods, but we cannot replicate all steps and/or we are not sure that all evidence is retrieved; high = long and detailed description of methods and we have some certainty that all evidence is retrieved. ²Ready for use in practice: yes = the information is specific enough to guide the practice of dietitians; no = the information is more general and only informative ³Level of evidence: Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Evidence Level and Quality Guide.