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BASICS OF NUTRITION EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY (THEORY)
Course Objectives (COs):
This course will enable the students to –
- Gain a insight on basics of epidemiology
- Understand the basics of anthropology
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):
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DHSC 613A
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Basics of Nutrition Epidemiology and Anthropology (Theory)
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The students will be able to - CLO256: To discuss the basics of nutritional epidemiology. CLO257: To compute and explain various health indicators for women, children and adolescents, and find their relevance in calculating the prevalence of various diseases. CLO258: To examine various agencies conducting surveys in India and abroad and utilization rates of key indicators of vulnerable age-groups. CLO259: To paraphrase the relevance of anthropology and nutrition. CLO260: To identify various factors responsible for making food choices and the role of women in maintaining health. |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching
Learning activities for the students: Self learning assignments, Case studies and fact sheets preparation, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Making question banks. |
Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects. |
- Definition and scope of epidemiology , Health and Nutritional epidemiology
- Determinants of MCH & indicators commonly used to track maternal/ child health &
- nutrition
- Definitions of commonly used epidemiological indicators like Crude death rate, IMR, U5
- MR, Birth rate, Fertility rate, , Maternal mortality rate/ratio etc..
- Disease frequency, causes and prevention - population at risk, Incidence and its
- comparison.
- Epidemiological Methods and Types
- Observational, Experimental, and Potential errors.
- Case fatality, Mortality.
- Status of maternal & child nutrition/health as per latest surveys
- Prevalence and utilization rates of key indicators/interventions for women, children,
- adolescence: globally and in India;
- Studying the progress of key indicators of vulnerable age groups based on disaggregated
- data rural vs urban, male vs female, SC, ST, OBC and Wealth quintiles. (NNMB, SRS,
- DLHS,CES, MICS,NFHS I, II and III data) and calculating per annum progress/deterioration.
- Vital statistics and Causes of IMR, NMR, MMR, Under 5 Mortality rates & its relationship with nutrition.
- Emergence of evidence based interventions for improving Maternal and Child Health and
- Nutrition from global and National epidemiological data base.
- Status of micronutrient deficiencies in mothers and children as per latest surveys
- Prevalence and utilization rates of key indicators/interventions to improve micronutrient
- deficiencies for women, children, adolescence: globally and in India;
- Studying the progress of key indicators of vulnerable age groups based on disaggregated
- data rural vs urban, male vs female, SC, ST, OBC and Wealth quintiles. (NNMB, SRS,DLHS,CES, MICS,NFHS I, II and III data) and calculating per annum progress/deterioration. Vital statistics and Causes of IMR, NMR, MMR, Under 5 Mortality rates & its relationship with nutrition.Emergence of evidence based interventions for improving Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition from global and National epidemiological data base.
- Definition and Application of the Discipline of Anthropology as applied to:
- Health and Disease
- Nutrition and Nutritional status
- Historical development of Nutritional Anthropology: Evolution from a biomedical to a socio cultural view of nutrition.
- Emic vs Etic Perspective.
- Factors Affecting Food choices and household level practices
- Ecological and Geographical
- Poverty, economic status
- Socio cultural; education, ethnic and religious factors.
- Sensory Qualities of Foods and culture
- Girl child and women
- Intra Household Distribution of Food
- Community beliefs about cause prevention and treatment of under nutrition and micro
- nutrient deficiencies (PEM,IDA, VAD, IDD ) in children and women in developed and
- developing countries.
- Ethno-physiology: cultural perceptions of body physiology in different stages of the life
- cycle (child, adolescent, adult) and its impact on home level nutrition and health care.
- Comparing rural vs urban differences as regards :
- Time and activity patterns; workload of men and women and its impact on food intake
- and nutritional status (especially vulnerable groups)
- Health care seeking behaviors – treatment of illness.
- Complementary feeding and breast feeding practices; family support.
- Seasonal variations in malnutrition and morbidity.
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http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241547073_eng.pdf
Moon G, Gould M (2000). Epidemiology: An Introduction. Philadelphia, Open
University Press.
Lillian Langseth (1996). Nutritional Epidemiology: Possibilities and Limitations.
Washington DC, ILSI Press.
Pelto GH, Pelto RJ and Masser E (1989). Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology,
Tokyo, Japan: The United Nations University
MotherCare (1990). Behavioural Determinants of Maternal Health Care Choices in
Developing Countries, Mother Care, USA.
Koblinsky M (1993). The Health of Women : A Global Perspective. (1993) NCIH,
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