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National Nutritional policy
The National Nutritional Policy adopted in 1993 aims to improve nutritional status in India through a comprehensive multi-sectoral approach. The policy's general objective is to improve nutritional status, while specific objectives include promoting favorable practices, reducing deficiencies and excess, assuring treatment for malnutrition, and providing support for people with HIV/AIDS. It involves both direct interventions like expanding nutrition programs and indirect interventions like ensuring food security, public distribution systems, and improving health, education, and women's status. The policy is monitored by various government groups and linked to goals of reducing poverty, improving education, lowering mortality, and combating disease.
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- 2. • Early 1993India adopted the National Nutritional policy. (NNP) • The policy in India is under the guidance of the department of women and child development.
- 3. • It iscomprehensive policy covering all the areas and aspects that affect the nutrition of the people. • It also provide linkage between the nutritional status of the population and the development and well being of the nation.
- 4. General Objective • Toimprove the Nutritional status of the people.
- 5. Specific objectives • Promotepractices favorable to the improvement of nutritional status. • Reduce the prevalence of d’se linked to nutritional deficiencies & excess.
- 6. • Assure adequatetreatment of Malnutrition • Provide nutritional care & support for people living with HIV/AIDS
- 7. • It havetwo intervention. Direct Indirect
- 8. Direct Intervention • Universalizethe ICDS scheme by year 2000, by extending it to the children in the age group of 0-6 years. • Reduce the incidence of severe and moderate malnutrition in children by half by year 2000.
- 9. • Nutrition andhealth education of mothers to be a key intervention to initiate the appropriate behavioral changes to manage the nutritional needs of their children. • Improving nutritional status of adolescent girls through iron & folic acid supplementation.
- 10. • Fortification ofessential food with adequate nutrients. • Popularization of low cost nutritious foods. • Controlling micronutrient deficiencies.
- 11. • Reducing anemia. •Distribution of iodized salt should cover all areas of the country.
- 12. Indirect intervention • FOODSECURITY • Ensuring per capita availability of 215 kg of food grains per person per year by producing 230 million tons of food grains per year by 2000 AD • Improvement of dietary pattern through production & demonstration.
- 13. • Public distribution •Improving purchasing power • Health & Family welfare • Land reforms
- 14. • Policies toimprove the income of rural & urban poor people. • Knowledge of basic health & nutrition • Nutrition surveillance • Improvement of the status of women
- 15. • Education &literacy • Minimum wage administration • Equal remuneration
- 16. Monitoring of NNP •The NNP identifies a series of actions for several ministries and departments of the governments and non-governmental organizations. • It has also documented that several special working groups be constituted in relation to nutrition, agriculture, rural development , health education, food & women & policies be analyzed & incorporated.
- 17. • The ministryof HR development reviews the implementation of nutrition intervention measures.
- 18. Strength of NNP •Identified that ………….. • nutrition is key to country’s development • Malnutrition has to be tackled at various levels through a multisectoral approach. • Series of action in different sectors like food production, distribution, education, empowerment of women & nutrition surveillance • Both direct & Indirect interventions were identified.
- 19. Link of NNPwith MDG (Millennium developmental Goals) Goal -2 Goal- 1 Goal- 3 Goal- 4 Goal- 5 Goal- 5
- 20. Goal-1 Reduce Poverty •The prevalence rate of PEM in children under five years of age is reduced from 45% to 30% for stunting. • 22% to 15% for underweight • 4% to 2% for wasting.
- 21. Goal-2 Ensure PrimaryEducation • The prevalence rate of Anemia is reduced from 56% to 37% in children and 33% to 22% in women. • Iodine deficiency disorders are eliminated from 26% to less than 5% of total goiter.
- 22. Goal-3 reduce infantMortality • Increase the proportion of exclusively breast feeding for the first 6 months. • Reduce vitamin A deficiency from 25% to 5% in children below five years.
- 23. Goal-4 Reduce Maternalmortality • Reduce Anemia in pregnant women
- 24. Goal-5 combat HIV/AIDS& other disease • Nutritional support is provided to PLWA. • Nutrition related chronic disease are prevented.