Family and Community Nutrition

Paper Code: 
NSS501
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To develop awareness among the students about the magnitude of nutritional problems.
  • To develop ability to assess the problems and devise nutrition education material for them.
  • To formulate solutions for overcoming problems of malnutrition in the Community.

 

9.00
  • Concept and Scope of Community Health and Nutrition.
  • Malnutrition – meaning, factors contributing to malnutrition, Economics of Malnutrition
  • Demography and Population Dynamics
  • Food and nutrition security

 

9.00

Direct methods – anthropometry, biochemical and clinical examination

Indirect methods – dietary surveys, vital statistics

 

9.00

Nutrition through Life cycle: infancy, preschool age:

  • Infants: Growth and development, nutritional requirements, colostrum feeding, exclusive breast feeding, breast feeding, bottle feeding, comparison of human and cow’s milk, complementary foods – commercial and home prepared, infant feeding practices, IMS Act, establishment of good feeding habits

 

 

9.00

Nutrition through Life cycle: school age and adolescence:

  • School children: Growth and development, nutritional requirements, promoting good food habits

Adolescents: Growth and development, nutritional requirements, eating disorders – anorexia nervosa, bulimia, skipping meals and snacking

9.00

Nutrition through Life cycle: adulthood and during conditions of various physiological changes

  • Adults: nutritional requirements
  • Pregnancy: Physiologic and biochemical changes, pre-maternal nutrition, prenatal nutrition and its impact on the growth and development of the fetus nutritional requirements, complications of pregnancy
  • Lactation: Physiologic effects, Socio-economic effects, psychological aspects, nutritional requirements

Old age: Physiologic and biochemical changes, nutritional requirements, factors influencing food habits, nutrition related health problems – osteoporosis, other health problems – constipation, anemia and hypertension

Essential Readings: 
  1. Basic Epidemilogy, R Bonita, R Beaglehole, T Kjellström, 2nd Edition , WHO, 2006
  2. Jeannette B. Endras, 1999. Community Nutrition Challenges and Opportunity  Merril,an imprint of prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Colum Ohio.
  3. Park, J.E. and Park, K. 2000. Text Book of Preventive and NSSial Medicine. Banarsidas Bhanot Publishers, Jabalpur.
  4. Robinson CH, Lawler MR, Chevoweth WL, Garwick AE. Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition. Mac Millan Publishing Company, New York, 1982.
  5. Srilakshmi, B. 1997 Dietetics. New Age International (P) Ltd, Publishers, New Delhi.
  6. Swaminathan, M. 1997. Principles of Nutrition and Dietetics. The Bangalore Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd, Bangalore. (1997 reprinted)

 

References: 
  1. Antia, F.P and Abraham, P. 1997 Clinical Dietetics and Nutrition. Oxford University Press, New Delhi (4th Ed)
  2. Bamji, M.S, Rao, N.P. and Reddy, V., 1999. Textbook of Human Nutrition. Oxford & IBH publishing Co Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.
  3. Begum, M.R. 1996. A Text Book of Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. (Revised 2nd Ed)
  4. Burtis, G., Davis, J. and Martin, S. 1998. Applied Nutrition and Diet Therapy. WB. Saunders Company, Philadelphia.
  5. Dale R, (2004) Evaluating Development Programmes and Projects. New Delhi : Sage
  6. Garrow, J.S, and James, W.P.t, 1994. Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Churchill Livingstone, New York. (4th Ed)
  7. Gopaldas, T. and Seshadari, S. 1987. Nutrition Monitoring and Assessment.Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
  8. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241547073_eng.pdf
  9. Jeliffee, N. 1962. Clinical Nutrition. Hoeber Medical Division, New York.
  10. Jelliffe. D.B. 1966. The Assessment of the Nutritional Status of the Community.WHO, Geneva.
  11. Joshi, S.A., 2001 Nutrition and Dietetics. Tata Mc Graw Hill Publishing Company Ltd, Delhi. (9th Ed).
  12. Khanna, K., Gupta, S., Pass, S.J, Pass, S.J, Seth, R., Mahan, R. and Puri, S. 1997 Texbook of Nutrition and Dietetics. Phoenix Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.
  13. Koblinsky M (1993). The Health of Women : A Global Perspective. (1993) NCIH,
  14. Kreutler, P.A and Czajka Narins, D.M. 1987 Nutrition in Perspective. Prentice-Hall, INC, Englewood cliffs, New Jersey. (2nd Ed)

 

Academic Session: 
2019-20
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