Nutrition Intervention and its importance

food and nutrition

1. Nutrition Intervention

2. Nutrition Care Process Nutrition Assessment Diagnose Intervention Monitoring and Evaluation

3. Nutrition Intervention Purposely planned actions intended to positively change a nutrition related behavior, Environmental condition, health status of individuals. Nutritional intervention refers to corrective measures that are undertaken to rectify the occurrence of overall malnutrition or specific nutrient deficiency or excess

4. How Should We Intervene? The causes of malnutrition are complex and differ among individuals, among households, among communities, and over time • G enerally, cost-effective and sustainable solutions must be tailored to a particular set of circumstances It consist of two parts Planning Implementation Nutrition Intervention

5. Household Community National International levels Nutritional Stress Response to Nutritional Stress Intake of nutrients excess than metabolic requirements of body Insufficient intake of nutrient than metabolic requirement of body Intake of Nutrients insufficient to meet the metabolic needs.

6. Responses to Nutritional Stress Breast feeding Home-based fortification Improving household food security ( quantity, quality , distribution) Improving household hygiene Food budgeting 1. Household Level 2 . Community Level Growth Monitoring & Promotion Supplementary feeding Nutrition education activities Cooperatives

7. Nutritional surveillance Food aid Conflict resolution National food & nutrition policies Responses to Nutritional Stress 3 . National Level 3 . International Level Nutrition investments can help break the cycle of poverty and increase a country’s GDP by at leas 2-3% annually. Investing $1 in nutrition can result in a $30 return in improved health, schooling and economic productivity . There are proven interventions that could address these problems and save millions of lives

8. Nutritional Stress Reduction “ WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY ” for high impact in reducing death and disease and avoiding irreversible harm. There are two complementary approaches to reduce under nutrition 1. Direct /nutrition specific interventions 2. Indirect /nutrition sensitive interventions