Community Nutrition (Theory)

Paper Code: 
HSC-601
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This Course will enable the student:

  • To develop awareness among the students about the magnitude of nutritional problems.
  • To develop ability to assess the problems and devise nutrition education material for them.
     
12.00
Unit I: 
  1. Concept and Scope of community Health and Nutrition.
  2. Nutrition and health in national development
  3. Malnutrition – meaning, factors contributing to malnutrition (e.g. Food products, food Availability, poverty etc.)
  4. Nutritional Disorders : Epidemiology, clinical features, preventions, dietary treatment :
  • Protein Energy Malnutrition
  • Nutritional Anemia
  • Vitamin A deficiency
  • Iodine deficiency disorder  
  • Micronutrient deficiency (e.g. Rickets, Beri Beri, Scurvy, Ariboflavinosis)
     
12.00
Unit II: 

Methods of assessing nutritional status

  1. Identification of at risk group
  2. Direct assessment – diet survey, anthropometry, clinical and biochemical. 
  3. Indirect assessment – food balance sheet, ecological parameters, vital statistics.

 

6.00
Unit III: 
  1. Nutrition and infection relationship, Immunization and its importance.
  2. Food born infection and intoxication disease, foods involved, methods of prevention infestation of food born disease outbreak Signs, and prevention and control of infection.
     
6.00
Unit IV: 
  1. Food fortification, Food enrichment
  2. Nutritional Surveillance   
     
9.00
Unit V: 
  1. National and International agencies in improving the nutritional status: WHO, UNICEF, CARE, ICMR, NIN, ICAR, CFTRI , VHAI, NIPCCI )
  2. Community Nutrition Programmes – Objectives, strategy and other various nutrition related welfare programme .An Overview of Goiter control programme , mid day meal programme, anemia And Vitamin A prophylaxes programme.    

 
 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Nutrition Foundation of India Bulletin, New Delhi.
  2. Nutrition News. NIN, Hyderabad.
  3. Park, J.E. and Park, K. 2009. Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine. Banarsidas Bhanot Publishers, Jabalpur.
  4. Jeannette B. Endras, 1999. Community Nutrition Challenges and opportunity Merril, an imprint of prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Colum Ohio.
     
References: 
  1. Rao, B.S.N. Deosthale, Y.G. and Pant, K.C. 1998 (Revised and updated). Nutrition value of Indian Foods by Gopalan. C. Ramashastri, B.V. and Balasubraman S.C., NIN, ICMR, Hyderabad.
  2. Gopaldas, T. and Seshadari, S. 1987. Nutrition Monitoring and Assessment. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
  3. Shukla , P.K. 1982 Nutritional Problems of India. Prentice Hall of India Pr Limited, New Delhi.
  4. McLaren, D.S. 1977. Nutrition in the Community John Wiley and Sons, Chichest.
  5. Jelliffe. D.B. 1966. The Assessment of the Nutritional Status of the Community. H health Organization, Geneva.
  6. Jeliffee, N. 1962. Clinical Nutrition. Hoeber Medical Division, New York.

 

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