| Course Name | Public Health Nutrition |
| Program | B.Sc. (Hons) Food Science and Nutrition (4 Year) |
| Semester | 7 |
| Credits | 4 |
| Campus | Coimbatore |
Public Health Nutrition- An Overview 14Hrs
Public health nutrition -Concept and importance. Concept of health and disease. Dimensions, determinants and indicators of health. Public health and nutritional issues- Global and Indian perspectives. Health care system in India. Role of public nutritionist in health care delivery.
Epidemiology –Concept, approaches, types and significance. Principles of Nutritional Epidemiology. Measurement issues. Epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Design and planning of nutritional epidemiological studies- Assessing and evaluating epidemiological studies.
Global and national public health nutrition approaches. Theories of behaviour change and their application to public health nutrition. Developing public health nutrition strategies in the community. Evaluation of public health interventions and policies. Formative research approaches to develop malnutrition interventions. Nutrition education- principle, methods and significance in maintaining public health nutrition.
National organizations- ICMR-NIN, ICAR, ICAR, CHEB, CSWB, SSWB, NNMB, CFTRI, DFRL, NFI and
NIPCCD. International organizations- FAO, WHO, UNICEF, WFP, CARE, GAIN, AFPRO, CWS, CRS, and World Bank. Economics of Nutrition. Malnutrition and its economic consequences. Food security. Food production and food pricing.
Course Objectives:
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Understand the basic concepts of public health nutrition
CO2: Gain knowledge in assessing and evaluating nutritional epidemiological studies CO3: Design strategies and approaches for managing public health problems
CO4: Gain insight into national and international organizations to combat malnutrition
CO-PO Mappings
| PO1 | PO2 | PO3 | PO4 | PO5 | PO6 | PO7 | PSO1 | PSO2 | PSO3 | PSO4 | |
| CO1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
| CO2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – |
| CO3 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| CO4 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Assessment | Internal | External |
| Periodical 1 (P1)+P2/Midterm | 30 | |
| *Continuous Assessment (CA) | 20 | |
| End Semester | 50 |
*CA – Can be Quizzes, Assignment, Seminar, Projects and Reports.
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