6.2.1: Malnutrition & Disease
Reduce levels of under nutrition and incidences of dietary related non-communicable diseases and micro-nutrient disorders. Other Information:
Medium-term Expected Outcome -- The key expected medium-term outcomes are effective utilization of quality food and the biological
utilization of nutrients in the body; reduced levels of under nutrition; reduced incidences of dietary related non-communicable
diseases and micro-nutrient disorders; increased human productivity; and strengthened structures and coordination for implementation
of policy and programme and enhanced capacity for nutritionists and dieticians at all levels. Key Strategies -- Effective
implementation of the nutrition strategies will require co-ordination among the key stakeholders. To successfully achieve
the intended goal and outcomes, to a greater extent, will rely on what happens in other sectors like agriculture and food
security, education, health and gender. Main strategies include; * Promoting the control, prevention and treatment of micro-nutrient
deficiency disorders particularly those caused by vitamin A, iodine and iron deficiencies; * Promoting control, prevention
and treatment of diseases that have direct impact on nutrition and human well-being; * Intensifying community nutrition assessment,
counselling, education and demonstration, supplementary and therapeutic feeding, referral to Nutrition Rehabilitation Units;
* Promoting the production of nutritious foods and livestock; * Harmonizing and improving food and nutrition security information
system for evidence based interventions; * Reviewing and including nutrition in curricula of all learning and training institutions;
* Targeting the elderly, pregnant and lactating mothers, under five and school going children, orphans and the physically
challenged with nutrition services to improve their well-being; * Enhancing co-ordination of nutrition programmes; * Building
capacity for nutritionists, dieticians, and community nutrition workers; * Producing, enacting and enforcing nutrition legislation;
and * Monitoring and managing dietary related non-communicable maladies.
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