Nutrition under MOHFW
  • Due to it's multidisciplinary character nutrition 
   is related with 13 different ministries.
  • MOHFW is one of the important ministry  
   which can address this problem up to certain 
   level
  • This issue incorporated in to constitution in 
   1972
  • Institute of Public Health Nutrition (IPHN) 
   established in 1972
     Topics of my presentation
  • Areas of interventions in National Nutrition 
   Services (NNS)
  • Scaling up proven direct and Indirect nutrition 
   interventions
    Major public health Nutrition problem : 
  1. Stunting
  2. Under weight 
  3. wasting
  4. Protein Energy Malnutrition 
  5. Iron deficiency Anemia, Iodine deficiency 
   disorders
  6. Vitamin A deficiency, zinc deficiency etc.
  7. Low Birth Weight
  8. Over nutrition & its complications  (diet related
  Non- communicable Diseases-NCD)
           Children          Adolescent Girls
          Under Two              13-19 yrs
                      Services
                      Through
                      Life-cycle    Newly Wed 
       Lactating    In BINP/NNP       Women
        Mothers
                       Pregnant
                        Women
        NNS would follow life-cycle approach in community service
           Lactating                              Forums                                 Under 2  
               Women                                                                     Children
                                                Adolescent boys
                                                Mother in law
          Post-partum Care                      Father in law
          Vitamin A                             Husband      of                      Growth Monitoring
          iron folate                           newly             and                Care for LBW
          Referral                              pregnant women                       FoodSupplementtionVit
                                                                                     amin A
                                                                                     Referral
                                            Household Survey   
                                            followed by update
                                            Home visit
                                                                                   Food Security Components
         BCC                                    Services                                 Nutrition Garden
                                                                                     Poultry for Nutrition
                                                perform by                           VGD-NNP Collaboration
               Training                         a CNP at 
                                                CNC
                                                                                     Adolescent 
              Pregnant                           Newly wed                                  Girls/boys
               Women                                 Couple
                                                                                     Monthly Forum
                                                 Nutrition                           Nutrition  Assessment
          Weight Monitoring                      Assessment                          IronFolate
          Iron Folate                            Counseling                          De-worming
          Antenatal care                         IronFolate                          Weight promotion
          Iron Folate                                                                IGA, Fruits tree 
          Food supplementation                                                       plantation
          Counseling
          Referral