Public Health Nutrition

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. assess the nutritional status of a community-anthropometry, clinical signs, vital statistics, ecological factors, food consumption, and morbidity, mortality biochemical data; 2. enumerate the determinants of the nutritional status of a community; 3. organise, plan and evaluate sustainable nutrition intervention programme; and 4. identify clinical, social and environmental context of malnutrition.

Conceptual framework of causes of malnutrition. Nutritional problems of public health importance in Nigeria. Principles of Nutrition Epidemiology. Socio-economic effect of nutritional problems. Effect of malnutrition on physical and mental development. Interventions to improve health and nutritional status of people such as Micronutrient deficiencies control (fortification, supplementation, and dietary diversification), child survival strategies, and Essential Nutrition actions, nutrition sensitive and nutrition specific interventions. Food sanitation and safety. Environment and nutrition. Development of primary health care and nutrition in Nigeria. Nutrition and Infection. Nutrition and HIV/AIDS. Maternal and child nutrition including breastfeeding and child spacing. Management of acute malnutrition (CMAM, SAM).