Community Nutrition (Theory)

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 production, food availability, poverty, food behavior etc.)
4. Nutritional Disorders : Epidemiology, clinical features, preventions, dietary treatment :
   • Protein Energy Malnutrition
   • Nutritional Anemia
   • Vitamin A deficiency disorder
   • Iodine deficiency disorder 
   • Micronutrient deficiency (e.g. Rickets, Vitamin D deficiency, Fluorosis Scurvy, Ariboflavinosis)

1. Demography and Population Dynamics
2. Methods of assessing nutritional status

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

1. Nutrition and infection relationship, Immunization and its importance.
2. Food born infections (Ambiasis, cholera, diarrhoea, hepatitis A, rotavirus, typhoid, tuberculosis, malaria, tetanus, whooping chough, etc.

•  outbreak, signs, symptoms, mode of transmission, incubation period, infective period and their prevention.

3.  Naturally occurring toxins in food

1.      Food and nutrition security                                                       

2.      Food fortification

3.      Nutrition and Health Education

4.      Nutritional Surveillance   

National and International agencies in improving the nutritional status : WHO, UNICEF, CARE, ICMR, NIN, ICAR, CFTRI , VHAI, NIPCCI )

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.