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Course Name Public Health Nutrition
Course Code 24CNF602
Program M. Sc. Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics
Semester III
Credits 4
Campus Kochi

Description

  1. Public Health Nutrition – An Overview-Concept and importance of public health nutrition. Public health issues and problems, Health care system in India, Role of public nutritionist in health care delivery
  2. Public Health Problems – Prevalence and management, Non-Communicable diseases Obesity, Cardio-vascular diseases, Diabetes, Cancer and their preventive measures,Nutrient deficiencies – PEM, severe acute malnutrition, anemia, Vitamin D, Folic acid, IDD
  3. Assessment of nutritional status in community Settings-Methods of nutritional assessment – ABCD technique, Dietary assessment – family diet survey, assessment of dietary intake of individuals, qualitative diet surveys, institutional diet surveys, food balance sheet
  4. Strategies to combat Public Health Problems-Improving food and nutrition security – Green White and Blue revolution,Nutrition education – Principles of planning –, where,when, whom, Kitchen garden, food fortification, food enrichment, PDS, PHC
  5. Nutrition Intervention programmes
    National Nutrition Policy Preschool feeding programme, ICDS, MDM, SNP, WNP, ANP, BNP, NNAPP, FNB, NIDDCP, National Program for Prevention of Blindness due to Vitamin A Deficiency
  6. Strategies to combat malnutrition
    International organizations concerned with food and nutrition: FAO, WHO, UNICEF, CARE, AFPRO, CWS, CRS World Bank and others.National organizations concerned with Food and Nutrition: ICMR, ICAR, CHEB, CSWB, SSWB
    Economics of Nutrition: Malnutrition and its economic consequences; Economics in Nutrition – Food security, food production and food pricing

Reference Books

  1. Gulani, K.K. 2005. Community Health Nursing. 1st Edition. Kumar Publishing House.New Delhi. Pp – 662 to 664.
  2. Gupta M.C., Mahajan B.K. 2003. Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine. Third Edition. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. New Delhi. India. Pp- 355-357.
  3. Kishore J. 2007. National Health Programmes of India. 7th Edition Century Publication.New Delhi.Pp- 340-361.
  4. Oxford textbook of Public Health Ed. Roger Detels, James Mcewen, Robert Beagle hole,and Heizo Tanaka Oxford University Press (OUP) 4th Edition: 2002.
  5. Public Health at the Crossroads – Achievements and Prospects. Robert Beaglehole and Ruth Bonita 2nd Edition Cambridge University Press
  6. Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Fourteenth Edition Ed Robert Wallace, MD, et al.
  7. Epidemiology and Management for Health Care: Sathe, P.V. Sathe, A.P., Popular Prakashan, Mumbai, 1991
  8. International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies by Michael Merson, Robert E Black, Anne J Mills – Jones and Bartlett Publishers
  9. Preventive and Social Medicine, K Park, BansaridasBhanot Publishing House

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