Chapter 1: Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Flashcards
Focuses on smaller, specific groups or communities. It aims to improve the health and nutrition of individuals within those communities by addressing environmental factors that affect their nutrition. The approach is often more localized, working with community organizations and groups to improve access to healthy food, education, and services. The focus is on changing the local environment and helping specific populations adopt healthier habits.
Community Nutrition
Takes a broader, population-wide approach. It aims to improve the health of the entire population by working on larger systems like the food and nutrition system. The focus is on preventing diet-related diseases and promoting health on a wide scale. Public health nutrition involves monitoring population health, assessing needs, and leading interventions that can impact the whole society. It collaborates across different sectors (like education, agriculture, and health) to create policies and programs that improve access to healthy food and ensure everyone’s nutritional rights.
Public Health Nutrition
Works on a smaller scale with specific communities.
Community Nutrition
Operates on a larger scale, focusing on the health of the entire population.
Public Health Nutrition
Organized measures to prevent diseases, promote health, and prolong life. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be healthy, focusing on entire populations, not on individual patients or diseases.
Public Health
Three aims of public health
Prevent diseases, promote health, and prolong life
Function of a public health nutritionist
Identifies the nutritional problems of the community
Helps people become aware of their condition
Possesses knowledge on individual and community nutritional assessment
Assessor of the people
Function of a public health nutritionist
Initiates the development of an organization that can help in the alleviation of nutritional problems
Discover potential leaders or consider manpower planning and development to assist in meeting the goals of the community
Community organizer
Function of a public health nutritionist
Organizes program planning activities
Assists and guides people in prioritizing their problems according to their perceived needs
Plans for actions to be taken in solving identified problems
Prevents the occurrence of problems
Program planner
Function of a public health nutritionist
Guides or assists people in solving the problems themselves to establish independence
Encourgaes people to take responsibility for their health, assists people to make appropriate dietary changes
involves the people in the implementation of programs
Program implementer
Function of a public health nutritionist as a nutrition educator
Counsels individuals and families on the principles of nutrition and assists them in altering dietary patterns when needed
Counselor
Function of a public health nutritionist as a nutrition educator
Conducts group sessions with patients’ or mothers’ classes or some similar activity to stimulate changes in nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and practices, and facilitates workshops and focus group discussions
Group facilitator
Function of a public health nutritionist as a nutrition educator
Analyzes and evaluates popular and scientific literature
Serves as a “bridge” between the nutrition scientist and the general public
Translator of research findings
Function of a public health nutritionist as a nutrition educator
Influences and mobilizes others to provide support for nutrition programs
Advocate
Function of a public health nutritionist as a nutrition educator
Provides consultation services to other health workers to ease the burden of conducting health leadership alone
Mentor
Function of a public health nutritionist
Plans, conducts, and evaluates nutrition and nutrition-related studies in the community
Knows how to conduct research, use research materials, and apply knowledge and skills in basic statistics and epidemiology, in collecting, compiling, analyzing, and reporting demographic and health and nutrition data.
Researcher
Function of a public health nutritionist
Recruits and trains personnel, supervises personnel assigned, and takes charge of the use and maintenance of facilities, equipment, and supplies
Prepares program reports on financial management and budgeting and other financial statements
Program Administrator
Function of a public health nutritionist
Assesses the program’s success or failure by evaluating activities
Program evaluator
Spanish Regime
1577, he set up a dispensary for treating indigents. It later became San Juan de Dios Hospital
*San Lazaro Hospital (Cebu and Camarines Sur)
Father Juan Clemente
Spanish Regime
Year when UST, first medical school was founded
1806
Spanish Regime
1876: Carriedo waterworks provided piped water to Manila residents
Don Francisco Carriedo
Spanish Regime
1884: Epidemic of beriberi in Manila
Koniger
American Regime
Year when the Board of health was established. Major concerns were control of epidemics and infectious diseases, beriberi, and sanitation
1898
American Regime
1904: A disease called “taon,” “taol,” or “suba” afflicted infants.
What was the symptom?
Infantile beriberi
American Regime
Year when UP College of Medicine was established
1907
American Regime
Year when Philippine General Hospital was founded
Beriberi was associated with eating white polished rice
1910
American Regime
Treatment of tiqui-tiqui extract was produced for beriberi treatment
1912
American Regime
Year when a law was enacted for the free distribution of tiqui-tiqui to indigent mothers
1914