COMMUNITY NUTRITION (PRACTICAL)

Paper Code: 
CND 603
Credits: 
02
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable students

  • To develop low cost recipes-weaning foods for infants and supplementary foods

                        for all ages.

  • Identification of the problem, planning and implementation of several community

                        based projects

 

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CND 603

Community Nutrition (Practical)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The students will be able to –

 

CO64: Develop skills required to develop low cost recipes to ensure proper to combat various deficiencies.

CO65:Planning and implement public health nutrition programmes.

CO66: Evaluate already ongoing Public Health nutrition programmes

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Analysis of Behavior change communications campaigns, Team teaching and learning activities

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective discussion, Simulation, Report analysis and presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical related to implementation of designed  nutrition education programmes

 

CA test, Semester end examinations, Viva, Group discussion and power point presentation

 

Development and sensory evaluation of various low cost recipes to combat dual burden of malnutrition

(a)   Protein energy malnutrition

(b)  Iron deficiency

(c)   Vitamin A deficiency

 

2.  Use and interpretation of growth charts.

3. Planning and Implementation of a Nutrition and Health Education programme

Essential Readings: 
  1. Park, J.E. and Park, K. 2000. Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine. Banarsidas Bhanot Publishers, Jabalpur.
  2. Wadhwa, A and Sushma, S. 2000.  A Textbook of Nutrition in the Community. Elite Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.
  3. Jeannette B. Endras, 1999. Community Nutrition Challenges and Opportunity  Merril , an imprint of prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Colum Ohio.

 

References: 
  1. Vir Chander Sheila. 2011. Public Health Nutrition in Developing Countries Part I & II. Woodhead Publishing India.
  2. Hughes R and Margetts M.B. 2011. Practical Public Health Nutrition. Wiley- Blackwell.
  3. Nnakwe E.N. 2013. Community Nutrition Planning Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Second Edition. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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