What is/are components of Nutrition surveillance?
Nutritional surveillance Keeping a watch over nutrition, in order to make decisions that will lead to improvement in nutrition of population Main strategy: Detection of malnutrition (Nutritional survey) Approach : Diagnostic-interventional Sample: Representative, 50-100 size group Objectives To aid health and development To provide input for program management and evaluation (to policy maker) To give timely warning and intervention (to prevent sho-term food crises) Ref: Park 25th edition Pgno : 688
Policy maker
National survey
AFP surveillace
DOTS
Nutrition and health