The document outlines the nutrition intervention process, emphasizing actions to improve nutrition-related behaviors and address malnutrition causes, which vary across individuals and communities. It stresses the importance of tailored, cost-effective solutions at household, community, national, and international levels, and highlights the potential economic benefits of investing in nutrition. Furthermore, it describes strategies for responding to nutritional stress and the significant impact of effective interventions on health and productivity.

1. Nutrition Intervention

2. Nutrition Care Process
• Nutrition Assessment
• Diagnose
• Intervention
• Monitoring and Evaluation

3. Nutrition Intervention
• Purposely planned actions intended to positively change a nutrition
related behavior, Environmental condition, health status of
individuals.
• Nutritional intervention refers to corrective measures that
are undertaken to rectify the occurrence of overall
malnutrition or specific nutrient deficiency or excess

4. How Should We Intervene?
I. The causes of malnutrition are complex and differ among
individuals, among households, among communities, and
over time•
II. Generally, cost-effective and sustainable solutions must be
tailored to a particular set of circumstances
It consist of two parts
1. Planning
2. Implementation
Nutrition Intervention

5.  Household
 Community
 National
 International levels
Nutritional Stress
Response to Nutritional Stress
• Intake of nutrients excess than metabolic requirements of body
• Insufficient intake of nutrient than metabolic requirement of
body
• Intake of Nutrients insufficient to meet the metabolic needs.

6. Responses to Nutritional Stress
• Breast feeding
• Home-based fortification
• Improving household food security (quantity, quality, distribution)
• Improving household hygiene
• Food budgeting
1. Household Level
2. Community Level
• Growth Monitoring & Promotion
• Supplementary feeding
• Nutrition education activities
• Cooperatives

7. • Nutritional surveillance
• Food aid
• Conflict resolution
• National food & nutrition policies
Responses to Nutritional Stress
3. National Level
3. International Level
• Nutrition investments can help break the cycle of
• poverty and increase a country’s GDP by at leas 2-3% annually.
• Investing $1 in nutrition can result in a $30 return
• in improved health, schooling and economic
• productivity.
• There are proven interventions that could address
• these problems and save millions of lives

8. Nutritional Stress Reduction
• “WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY” for high impact in reducing death and
disease and avoiding irreversible harm.
• There are two complementary approaches to reduce under nutrition
1. Direct /nutrition specific interventions
2. Indirect /nutrition sensitive interventions