Community Nutrition

Paper Code: 
CND 332
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course shall enable the students

To recognize the solutions for overcoming problems of malnutrition in the community.

9.00
Unit I: 
  • Introduction to community health, health care, health delivery systems
  • Causes of malnutrition, Impact of malnutrition, Dual Burden of Malnutrition   
  • Economics of malnutrition                                                                                                                                                                     
9.00
Unit II: 
  • Determinants of food consumption and nutritional status of community
  • Nutrition and Behaviour
  • Modern methods of improvement of nutritional quality of foods                      
  • Fortification, Mutual Supplementation, Fermentation, Enrichment, Germination, Probiotics

9.00
Unit III: 
  • Assessment of Nutritional Status
    • Anthropometry
    • Dietary Survey
    • Clinical Examination
    • Biochemical Estimations
  • Nutritional surveillance  and monitoring                                                                                                                      
9.00
Unit IV: 
  • Nutrition Education Objectives, Principles, Scope                                                                                                                    
  • National and International agencies   (UNICEF, WHO, etc)
  • Programme Planning                                                            
9.00
Unit V: 
  • An overview of ongoing programmes in health and nutrition sector  (State and central level)
     
  • National Nutrition Policy & Plan of Action
  • National Health Policy & Plan of Action
Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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