Applied community nutrition

1. Applied community nutrition

2. Introduction
• Main aim of applied community nutrition program is to
improve nutritional status in targeted groups and to overcome
specific diseases through various programs
Targeted groups are
1. Preschool childrens
2. School childrens
3. Pregnant or lactating women

3. Mid Day Meal Programme
• Major Objective of MDMP is to improve the School attendance
• To make beneficial impact on Childs nutrition
• To prevent malnutritional disorders
• Supplement, not substitute to home diet
• 1/3 total energy requirement/day and ½ total protein requirement /day
should be provided to childrens under this program
• Food should be easily prepared at schools, As for as possible locally
available food.
• Change in menu frequently

4. Balwadi Nutrition Programme
• Balwadi Nutrition Programme was started in 1970 under the
department of social welfare
• Beneficiary group was preschool childrens of 3-6years of age
• 300kcal of energy and 10gm protein was provided per day to
pre school childrens under this program
• Programme was quite famous in villages

5. Iodine Deficiency Disorder Control Programme
• Iodine Deficiency Disorder Control Programme was started
along with National goiter control programme in 1962
• IDD Control Programme Replace the entire edible salt by
iodide salt Double fortification of salt iodine and iron
• IDD control programme made awareness in public regarding
the importance of iodine in diet

6. Immunization program
• Main aim of this government program is prevent serious
diseases
• Immunization of infant by polio virus under polio prevention
program is very popular in India till date
• Immunization of pregnant women by tetanus, tuberculosis was
also implemented in India successfully

7. Supplementary Nutrition Program
• Supplementary Nutrition includes supplementary feeding and
growth monitoring of childrens
• Extra food like eggs and milks were provided along with
staple food to prevent under nutritional disorders
• Growth Monitoring of childrens under this program was
carried out as
1. Children <3 years of age of age are weighed once a month
2. 2children 3-6 years of age are weighed quarterly

8. Health Check-up program
• Under this program health check up of preschool children,
childrens and pregnant women was conducted
• Recording of weight, immunization, management of
malnutrition, treatment of diarrhea and distribution of simple
medicines was carried out under this program
• During health check-ups and growth monitoring, sick or
malnourished children, in need of prompt medical attention,
are referred to the Primary Health Centre

9. Drawbacks of Applied nutritional program
• Programme is good as for as improving nutrition of the
underprivileged children
• But it requires sustainability for this requires political will
• community participation, monitoring and evaluation
• Repeated incidence of food poisoning in the mid day meal
causing serious threat to existence of this programmes