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Family and Community Nutrition [1]

Paper Code: 
NSS 501
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • Recognize the solutions for overcoming problems of malnutrition in the Community.
  • 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.
  • Know the factors affecting the Nutrient needs during the life cycle

 

9.00

Introduction of Public nutrition

·         Concept and Scope of Community Health and Nutrition.

·         Malnutrition – meaning, factors contributing to malnutrition, Economics of Malnutrition

·        

9.00

 Demography and Population Dynamics

Food and nutrition security

9.00

Nutrition through Life cycle: infancy, preschool age, school age and adolescence:

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

 

9.00

Nutrition through life cycle:School age and Adolscence

  • 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

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. BanarsidasBhanot 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 [2]
  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 McGraw 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 CzajkaNarins, D.M. 1987 Nutrition in Perspective. Prentice-Hall, INC, Englewood cliffs, New Jersey. (2nd Ed)

 

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2021-22 [3]

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