1. UNIT TEN: Nutrition Intervention
• Learning objectives:
• At the end of this unit, students will be able to:
• ƒUnderstand methods of intervention
• ƒMechanisms of intervention
• ƒDescribe the criteria for successful intervention
2. Nutrition intervention
• When there is a nutritional problem in a community, if the magnitude
and the causes of the problem are known, we will plan to do
intervention.
3. Methods of nutrition intervention
ƒFood fortification
ƒFood for work
ƒPrice subsidization
ƒSupplementation
ƒFamily planning
ƒIntegration of nutrition with health
ƒPrice policy
4. Mechanisms of nutrition interventions
• There are five principal mechanisms through which all interventions
work.
ƒAvailability of food at local or regional level. Making the required foods
more available with the respect to place and time.
ƒAccessibility to food and availability of foodstuff at the household
evel. Making the required foods more accessible and available to he
households
5. • ƒFood utilization at household level. Making better use of available
• foods. Food processing such as fermentation, preparing weaning
• food.
• ƒDistribution within the household.
• ¾ Intra household distribution of food
• ¾ Supplementation
• ¾ Education
• ƒPhysiological utilization
• ¾ Health service activities and environmental sanitation
• ¾ Primary health care
• ¾ Environmental health
6. Criteria used for successful interventions
ƒRelevance of the intervention to solve the problem at hand
ƒFeasibility
ƒIntegratability
ƒEffectiveness
ƒEase in targeting
ƒCost effectiveness
ƒEase in evaluation
ƒLong-term continuation
