What is /are components of Nutrition surveillance?
Nutrition surveillance: – Main strategy: Detection of malnutrition (nutritional survey)
– Approach: Diagnostic-interventional
– Sample: Representative, 50 - 100 size group
– Objectives: 1. To aid health and development 2. To provide input for program management and evaluation (to policy makers) 3. To give timely warning and intervention (to prevent short-term food crises)
Policy maker
DOTS
Nutritional survey
AFP surveillance