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Community Nutrition Programmes
Community Nutrition Programmes
Pulses 3
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Oils and fats
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Leafy
Non – leafy vegetables 3
vegetables
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Special nutrition programme
Programme was started in
1970 Beneficiaries
Children below 6 years of
age
Pregnant and nursing
mothers
In urban slums, tribal areas and
backward rural areas
Supplementary food supplies about 300
kcal and 10-12 grams of protein per
child per day
Mothers receive daily 5 00 kcal and
25 grams of protein
Supplement is provided for 300 days
in year
It is gradually being merged with
ICDS programme
Balwadi nutrition programme
Started in 1970
6000 Balwadi centre -across the country
For children under the age group of 3-
6 years
Provide pre-primary education to
children
Food supplement provides 300 kcal
and 10 grams of protein per child per
day for 270 days
Tamilnadu integrated nutrition
programme
Was started in the year 1981
Beneficiaries are children < 6
years, pregnant and lactating
mothers
Merged with ICDS programme
Prophylaxis against nutritional
anaem ia 1970
prevalence of nutritional anemia
in India
65% infant and
60% 1-6 yearstoddlers
of age,
88% adolescent girls (3.3% has
hemoglobin <7 gm./dl; severe
anemia)
85% pregnant women (9.9%
having severe anemia.
The prevalence of anemia was
marginally higher in lactating women as
compared to pregnancy.
The commonest is iron
anemia
deficiency
The programme was launched in 1970
1992 became part of CSSM programme
1997 became part of RCH programme
All pregnant mothers get 1 tablet of IFA per day
for 100 days
All anaemic mothers get 2 tablets of IFA per
day for 100 days
All anaemic child get 1 tablet of IFA per day
for 100 days
All acceptors of family planning (IUD) are
given one tablet of IFA for 100 days
All adolescent girls were given 1 tablet of IFA
per week
Dose
60 mg of elementary iron &0.5 mg of folic
acid and which was ra ised to 100 mg
elementary iron from 1 992 however folic
acid content remained same
Children in the age group of 1-5 years
given
are one tablet of iron containing 20 mg
elementary iron (60 mg of ferrous su
lphate and 0.1 mg of folic acid) daily for
a period of 100 days.
Vitamin-A prophylaxis
programme
1970
VAD is the most common cause of
preventable blindness in children(1-3yrs)
children
National Iodine Def iciency Disorder
Control program me
(NIDDCP) 1992
National goitre control programme was
launched in 1962
GOI adopted policy of universal salt iodization
(USI) 1984
Amended 1988- level of iodization of salt at
manufacture level at 30pp m and consumer
level 15ppm
1990 sale and manufacture of non iodized salt
was banned
Referred as NIDDC programme in 1992 with
an am to bring down the incidence of IDD
below 10% by 2000
Components of IDDC programme
Mass communication
Mass communication through posters
radio, television, news papers and
other means