Question

Question?

How would a public health nurse participate in building healthy public policy for identified nutrition issues for young children aged (0-6years) and their breastfeeding parents in early year schools? (e.g., support development of healthy policies or practices in community placement).

• The goal is to build healthy public policy.
• The identified health issue is nutrition.

Answer 1

under nutrition is a condition arise due to poor intake of essential nutrients that disturbs the normal growth and development. a public health nurse as a team member in building a public health policy on nutrition for under five children and breast feeding parents must focus on the prerequisities before hand.

the public helath policy must have these components:

the need for a nutrition policy

• the importance of building a nutritional program

the nutritional status of the country

• the statistics results of the survey conducted on nutritional inatke of the people of the country including micro and macro nutrients

the nutritional problems prevalent in the country

• protein energy malnutrition
• iron defiency anemia

the existing policy on nutrition

• this policy has to be examined, reviewed and report the areas which lack and require further interventions

nutritional interventions specifically for underfive children and their parents

• food fortification
• nutritional supplements

administration of the nutritional programs under this policy

• at local level, state level and national levels

system for continuous monitoring of the maintanence of the program

• continuous feed back and evaluation system