Nutrition

1. Nutrition Education:
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2. Definition of Nutrition Education
• Nutrition education is any combination of
educational strategies, accompanied by
environmental supports, designed to facilitate
voluntary adoption of food choices and other
food and nutrition-related behaviors conducive to
health and well-being;
• Nutrition education is delivered through multiple
venues and involves activities at the individual,
institutional, community, and policy levels.

3. Nutrition education can also be looked
at as a set of learning experiences
designed to facilitate the voluntary
adoption of eating and other nutrition
related behaviors conducive to health
and well-being for those on a limited
budget.
Nutrition education cont

4. • Focuses on specific behaviors, actions, practices
• Uses communications and educational strategies to
enhance awareness and motivation
• Employs a systematic behavioral change process,
including social support and empowerment
• Includes environmental interventions and community
activation & organization.
Effective Nutrition Education

5. • Focuses on specific behaviors, actions, practices
• Identifies and addresses influences /potential
mediators of behavior change
• Uses theory and research to design educational
strategies directed at these potential mediators
• Addresses the multiple levels of influences
Key elements of effectiveness

6. What contributes to effective
nutrition education?

7. Elements of effectiveness
Intervention characteristics:
 Theoretical basis
 Family components
 Social support
 Small groups*
 Goal setting/self-monitoring/feedback*
 Food-related activities
 Cultural specificity
 Study quality

8. Social /Environmental
Determinants:
Social/ cultural
environment:
•Social relations
•Cultural practices
•Social structures
•Public policy
Informational
environment
Economic
environment
•Resources
•Price
•Time
• Food availability
• Built environment
•Advertising
•Media
Biologically
determined
behavioral
predispositions:
•Taste/pleasure
•Sweet, sour, salt, bitter
•Hunger/satiety mechanisms
•Sensory specific satiety
Experience with Food:
Associative conditioning
Physiological
conditioning:
•Familiarity:
learned safety
•Conditioned food
preferences
•Conditioned satiety
Social conditioning:
Person-Related
Determinants
•Motivations &
values
•Personal
meanings
•Knowledge &
skills
FOOD CHOICE AND
DIET-RELATED
BEHAVIORS
•Social norms
•Cultural
norms
•Social affective
context
•Parenting practices
•Perceptions
•Attitudes
•Beliefs
Inter-person
factors
Family & social
networks
Intra-person
factors
Physical/ built
environment
Nutrition Education
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9. Overlapping Roles of Nutrition Education

10. Nutrition Education Logic Model
Evaluating Multiple Levels of Intervention
Inputs/
Resources
People
Time
Materials
Money
Space
Partners
Needs
assess-
ment
process
Organizational & community level
(Partnerships & collaborations)
Outcomes
(Impacts)
Individual & Interpersonal level
(Individuals, households, groups)
Policy, systems & social structures
(collaborations)
Educational programs: in
person & indirect; social
marketing
Individuals in groups
Learning &
motivation
Use skills,
take action
Identified audiences
Decreased
disease risk
Activities Participants Short Medium Long term
Strategies to develop
social support &
partnerships
Local agencies,
organizations
Partners
Increase
awareness
Commit to
change
Use skills,
take action
Solve
community
problems
Create/ revise policy,
change in systems, &
social structures
Policy makers
Policy makers
Identify &
define
issues
Work
towards
change
Adopt/
revise
policy
Outputs