Community nutrition

• Community nutrition is the process of

helping individuals and groups develop
healthy eating habits in order to promote
wellness and prevent disease.
 importance of community
nutrition
• The aim of Community Nutrition actions is
to adequate lifestyles related to food
consumption patterns in order to improve
the quality of life and contribute to health
promotion of the population in the
community where programs and services
are delivered.
need for community nutrition for
special groups
• infants
• child
• adolescent
• pregnant women
• lactating mother
• old peoples
nutritional problem in India
 other disorders
• vitamin D , E,K and Vitamin BComplex , C
Deficiencies
• Minerals deficiency
• other disorders related to lack of or over
nutrients.
 nutritional programmes in India
• Vit A deficiency programmes
• national iodine deficiency disorder programme
• mid day meal programmes
• ICDS
• various agencies
• NIPCCD(National Institute of Public Cooperation and
Child Development),
• CARE(Cooperative for Assistance and Relief
Everywhere),
• FAO,NIN, CFTRI
 Vit A deficiency programmes

• The National Prophylaxis Programme

against Nutritional Blindness due to
Vitamin A Deficiency (NPPNB due to VAD)
was initiated in 1970 with the specific aim
of preventing nutritional blindness due to
VAD.The Programme was started as a
100 per cent centrally sponsored
programme.
• In 1970 National Prophylaxis Programme
Against Nutritional Blindness was initiated
as a centrally sponsored scheme. Under
this scheme, all children between ages of
one and three years were to be
administered 200,000 IU of Vitamin A
orally once in six months.
• In the fifties and sixties many of the states reported that
blindness due to Vitamin A deficiency was one of the major
causes of blindness in children below five years. A five-year
long field trial conducted by NIN showed that if massive dose
Vitamin A (200,000 units) was administered once in six
months to children between one and three years of age, the
incidence of corneal xerophthalmia is reduced by about 80
per cent. In view of the serious nature of the problem of
blindness due to Vitamin A deficiency, it was felt that urgent
remedial measures in the form of massive dose Vitamin A
supplementation covering the entire population of susceptible
children should be undertaken.
 aim
• Aim: to decrease the prevalence of
Vitamin A deficiency.
 OBJECTIVES
• Prevention of vitamin A deficiency:
1. Promoting consumption of Vitamin A rich food
2. Creating awareness about the importance of
preventing Vitamin A deficiency
3. Prophylactic Vitamin A as per the following dosage
schedule:
• 100000 IU at 9 months with measles immunization

• 200000 IU at 16-18 months, with DPT booster

• 200000 IU every 6 months, up to the age of 5 years.

• thus, a total of 9 mega doses are to be given from 9 months of age

up to 5 years.
• Treatment of Vitamin A deficient children:
1. All children with xerophthalmia are to be
treated at health facilities.
2. All children having measles, to be given 1
dose of Vitamin A if they have not
received it in the previous month.
3. All cases of severe malnutrition to be
given one additional dose of Vitamin A.