Nutritional surveillance provides important inputs for health and development planning by monitoring food consumption and allowing for timely intervention to prevent food crises. It involves identifying at-risk populations, collecting and analyzing nutrition data, interpreting the results, and planning responses. The process is cyclical and aims to continually improve by implementing further actions based on evaluations. While growth monitoring tracks individual nutrition status, nutritional surveillance examines the broader community and environmental factors influencing a population's nutrition.

1. Nutritional Surveillance, Education
and rehabilitation in the context of
sociocultural factors
Department of Community Medicine

2. Nutritional Surveillance
• It provides inputs for health and development
planning
• It is useful for programme management and
evaluation
• It provides timely warning and intervention to
prevent (short term) food consumption crisis
and plan for long term action

3. Steps of Nutritional Surevillance
• a) Identify community/population
• b) Data collection
• c) Data transit
• d) Data processing
• e) Interpretation
• f) Responses and Planning
• g) Improvement
• h) Further implementation

4. Methodology
• What is the problem?
• Who is at risk?
• Why is the population at risk?
• Where to get data from?
• Define food supply system
• Obtain the data, analyse and provide feedback to
decision makers.
• Finally, evaluate the nutritional
surveillancesystem.

5. Differences between Nutritional Surveillance
and Growth Monitoring

6. Differences between Nutritional Surveillance
and Growth Monitoring

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