- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 - 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
