Course

PART-A

Unit 1: Concept of community nutrition

• Community Nutrition: Definition and factors affecting
• Human Development Index
• Community organization,
• Role of community nutritionist

Unit 2: Strategies for improving nutrition and health status of the community

• Appropriate interventions involving different sectors: Food, Health and Education
• Health care
• Primary health care
• The health system in India

Unit 3: Assessment of Nutritional Status of Individual and Community

• Meaning and significance of nutritional status assessment
• Methods of nutritional assessment
• Errors in methods of assessing nutritional status
• Rapid assessment procedures for community nutrition assessment

PART-B

Unit 4: Public Health aspect of Under Nutrition

• Etiology, clinical features, public health implications, preventive strategies for:

4.2Chronic Energy Deficiency/ Protein Energy Malnutrition and Severe Acute Malnutrition

• Micronutrient deficiencies – Vitamin A deficiency, Nutritional Anemias, Iodine deficiency disorders, Vitamin D deficiency and Osteoporosis, Zinc Deficiency

Unit 5: Food and Nutrition Security

• Concept, components, determinants and approaches
• National Food Security Act, 2013
• Role of National and International organizations: ICMR, ICAR, NIN, CFTRI, FAO/WHO, UNICEF, NNMB/NFHS

UNIT 6: Public Health Aspects of Lifestyle related disorders  

• Public Health implications and preventive strategies for: Obesity, Hypertension, Cardiovascular diseases, Diabetes

1. Community Health and Nutrition (Theory )

• BND-DS-302.1.To understand the prevalence of nutritional problems in
• BND-DS-302.2.To develop the skills in planning, executing and evaluating nutrition projects in the
• BND-DS-302.3. To familiarize with various approaches to nutrition and health interventions, programs
• And
• BND-DS-302.4. to understand the national and international contributor towards national improvement in alleviating nutrition

2. Community Health and Nutrition (Practical)

• To undertake community based projects for assessment and enhancement of nutritional
• To Critical appraise existing intervention and programs in the government and
• Voluntary sector and suggestion to improve the
• To develop new teaching aids in the field of nutrition
• To appreciate the National and International contributor towards national improvement in alleviating nutrition

1. Community Health and Nutrition (Theory )

1. Gibson R (2005). Principles of Nutritional Assessment. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press.
2. WHO (2006).WHO Child growth standards: Length/height for age, weight for age, weight for length, weight for height and body mass index (2006). Available at http:// who.int
3. Jelliffe The Assessment of the Nutritional Status of the Community. WHO Monograph.World Health Organization, Geneva 1966; 53.

4. Park, K. (2017) Park‟s Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 24th ed. Jabalpur M/s. Banarsidas 5. Nutrition Atlas of India, C Gopalan & K Raghavan, ICMR Publication. Nutrition in the community, Arvind Wadhwa and Sushma Sharma (2003), Elite Publishing House Pvt . Ltd. New Delhi

2. Community Health and Nutrition (Practical)

1. Gibson R (2005). Principles of Nutritional Assessment. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press.
2. WHO (2006).WHO Child growth standards: Length/height for age, weight for age, weight for length, weight for height and body mass index (2006). Available at http:// who.int
3. Jelliffe The Assessment of the Nutritional Status of the Community. WHO Monograph.World Health Organization, Geneva 1966; 53.
4. Park, K. (2017) Park‟s Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 24th ed. Jabalpur M/s. Banarsidas 5. Nutrition Atlas of India, C Gopalan & K Raghavan, ICMR Publication.
5. Nutrition in the community, Arvind Wadhwa and Sushma Sharma (2003), Elite Publishing House Pvt . Ltd. New Delhi
6. Community based Management of children with severe acute malnutrition, Operational & Technical guidelines (2012) Ministry of health & Family Welfare, NirmanBhawan, New Delhi
7. Indian Council of Medical Research: Dietary Guidelines for Indians. (2011)Dietary Guidelines for Indians: A manual (2nd ) second edition , NIN.
8. Gibney, M.J., Margetts, B.M., Kearney, J.M. Arab, I. (Eds.) (2004)Public Health Nutrition. NS Blackwell Publishing.
9. Longvah T, Ananthan R, Bhaskarachary K, Venkaiah K (2017) Indian food composition tables. National Institute of Nutrition.
10. Jelliffe, D. B., &Jelliffe, E.F.P. (1989)Community Nutritional Assessment. Oxford University
11. Management of SAM children through medical nutrition therapy (2009) Vol I & National Consensus Workshop. Published by DBT. Ministry of Science & Technology. Government of India and ICMR, New Delhi
12. Owen, Y,&Frankle, R.T. (1986)Nutrition in the Community: The Art of Delivering Services (2nd ed.) Times Mirror/Mosby.
13. Park, K. (2017) Park’s Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine. 24th ed. Jabalpur M/s. Banarsidas
14. Ross, C. (2012) Nutrition in health and disease. (Eds) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
15. Shils, E. (1998) Nutrition in health and disease. (Eds) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
16. Vir, S. (2011) Public health nutrition in developing countries Part-1 & 2. Woodhead Publishing India limited.
17. Wadhwa, & Sharma, S. (2003) Nutrition in the Community. A text book.
18. SCN News, UN ACC/SCN Subcommittee on
19. WHO (2006) WHO Child growth standards: Length/height for age, weight for age, weight for length, weight for height and body mass index (2006). Available at http:// who.int.
20. WHO (2007) WHO Reference Data for Children and Adolescents (5-19 years). WHO Available at http://www.who.int/growthref/en/
21. WHO (2009) WHO Child growth standards: Growth velocity based on weight, length and head circumference Available at http://www.int
22. WHO child growth standards and identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children, Joint statement – Child Growth Standards for SAM children (2009)
23. WHO Guidelines for Inpatient treatment for SAM child (2003) Available at http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/severemalnutrition/9241546093/en/