What do you understand by food based strategies? Explain giving examples.

Briefly explain the steps involved in designing a nutrition health programme.

NNACP

NIDDCP

ICDS

Write down the programme component, target group of following programmes and their significance in context of combating malnutrition:

 What is nutrition monitoring? Name the organizations involved with nutrition monitoring in India.

What do understand by dietary assessment? Elaborate on any one quantitative and one qualitative method you would use for dietary assessment.

What are the common measurements used in nutritional anthropometry? Explain briefly how you would use them for classification of nutritional status for children.

Infant mortality rate

Net reproduction rate

Birth and death rate

What do you understand by the term demography? Enumerate the various stages of a demographic cycle.

 Explain the economic consequences of malnutrition. Enlist the various government nutrition programme for control of malnutrition in India.

Rickets

 Scurvy

Beri-Beri

Enlist the consequences and preventive measures of iron and zinc deficiencies.

 Briefly explain the different clinical forms of PEM. Elaborate the preventive measures for PEM.

How is India's food security system working to improve nutritional status of the population?