Health and nutrition 3

Today's focus will be on prevention and control of malnutrition

Everybody has a role to play in helping us eat and stay Healthy

For Doctors/ Health workers:
They should educate people on good nutrition in all environment they found themselves,
Hospital, market, steem community, Facebook etc

They should go into the community and identify those affected and at risk. This is known as nutritional surveillance.

They should inform policy makers on the nutritional needs of thier immediate community

Provide nutrient suppliments

And manage malnutrition

For the individual;
Should listen to advice, educative seminars and act upon them on his/her personal life.

Draw out a plan on how to achieve good and healthy meals.

See a Doctor or nutritionist if in doubt about information.

Go to a trained doctor when they fall sick.

For the government:
Should inspect foods, create policy and standards guiding Health food production, distribution and usage.
Listen to health practicioners on useful advice for policy making.

All these can be round up in the six ps of preventing malnutrition

Production:
Improve yield

Preservation:
Adequate and proper storage of food

Population;
Family planning services

Poverty:
Poverty alleviation programs

Politics:
Food policies

Pathology:

Proper treatment of disease.

Thank you for reading .
Next episode will be on food hygiene and safety.