Question

Identify the major 5 key actors within communities and state their roles in promoting   nutritional status of communities

Answer 1

Ans) A public health nutritionist is an expert in diet and nutrition who works to improve public nutritional habits instead of working one on one with individual clients.

- Community workers, Volunteers, Individuals, family in community are all together involved in community nutrition.

- Community nutrition incorporates the study of nutrition and the promotion of good health through food and nutrient intake in populations.

- Community nutrition relating to dietary goals and recommendations for populations; methods of assessing diet in population groups; and promoting healthy eating at the community level.

- Community nutrition (public health nutrition) requires a population approach. The community rather than the individual is the focus of interest.

- This area of nutrition focuses on the promotion of good health and the primary prevention of diet-related illness.

- The emphasis is on maintenance of health in the whole population, although it will also include working with high-risk groups and other subgroups within the population.

- Community nutrition includes nutritional surveillance; epidemiological studies of diet; and also the development, implementation, and evaluation of dietary recommendations and goals. A community may be any group of individuals, for example, the population of a town or country, or the residents of an old people's home.