Chapter 6: Nutrition and Nutrition-Related Interventions Flashcards
A purposively planned activity, program, policy, or other action that is designed with the intent of increasing food and nutrient intake, changing a behavior, risk factor, environmental condition, or aspect of health status for an individual, target group, community, or the population at large.
Nutrition intervention
The transformation of governments’ political priorities into programs. It provides conceptual frameworks/guidelines as bases for over all plans.
E.g. Republic Act, Executive Order, and Presidential Decree, resolution, administrative order, ordinance, or a policy statement.
Policy
A cluster of programs that is comprehensive, long-range in time frame, and includes defined goals, strategies, and guidelines for implementation.
Plan
Detailed plan that presents personnel, facilities, money, equipment, supplies, and other items directed to accomplish specific objectives.
A cluster of projects.
Program
A specific and time-bound set of tasks or activities undertaken to achieve a given objective according to a defined budget and timetable.
Project
A short-term effort performed by one or several members of a project team.
Activity or task
Are the human, technical, material, institutional, and financial things necessary to realize activities, projects, and programs
Inputs or resources
These are programs directly related to food, including those aiming to improve food availability, accessibility, quality, safety, consumption, and knowledge.
E.g. Nutrition-oriented food policies, food assistance/feeding programs, complementary foods, nutrition education
Explicitly nutritional
Programs with indirect nutritional impact through improvement of effective food demand, food utilization, and energy balance.
e.g. primary health care, sanitation, economic, activity moderation
Implicitly nutritional
It is done by breeding and genetic engineering to increase nutrient content and bioavailability in the crops
Biofortification
Bioforitication by _____ to increase nutrient content
Soil and foliage fertilization
To increase nutrient content of a manufactured food
Post-harvest fortification or food fortification
To increase bioavailability
e.g. cooking
Post-harvest modification
To address immediate deterinants of fetal and child nutrition and development
Nutrition-specific intervention and programs
Development programs that were tweaked to produce nutritional outcomes
Nutrition-sensitive intervention and programs
Actions developed and designed to assist the nutrition specific programs in achieving a greater degree of efficiency and effectiveness
Enabling programs
The country’s highest policy-making and coordinating body on nutrition.
It promotes a multisectoral, multilevel, and integrated action.
National Nutrition Council (NNC)
EO to formulate food and nutrition policies and strategies to improve nutrition and to coordinate the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of the national food and nutrition program.
EO No. 234
NNC governing board is composed of?
10 government organizations, represented by their secretaries
3 representatives from the private sector, appointed by the Presidents for a 2-year term
It is the executive arm of NNC governing board.
It is headed by an executive director, assisted by 2 deputy directors
NNC Secretariat
NNC Secretariat composition (3 offices)
3 technical divisions (policy and planing; monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance; advocacy, education, and training)
2 support divisions (administration and finance)
16 regional offices, headed by the nutrition program coordinators (NPC)
Provides assistance for both the NNC Governing Board and NNC Secretariat
It is composed of directors and bureaus or offices
NNC Technical Committee
(Year)
Creation of Philippine Institute of Nutrition (PIN)
First attempt to institutionalize a national nutrition program
1947
(Year)
Reorganization of the PIN into Food and Nutrition Research Center (FNRC) under the National Science and Development Board
1958
(Year)
Organization of the National Coordinating Council on Food and Nutrition (NCCFN), a loose organization of government and non-government agencies and organizations
1960
(Year)
Promulgation of EO No. 285
1971
This mandates the National Food and Agriculture Council (NFAC)
EO No. 285
(Year)
Promulgation of Presidential Decree No. 491
Created the National Nutrition Council as the highest policy-making and coordinating body on nutrition
1974
Date of promulgation of PD No. 491 or the Nutrition Act of the Philippines
June 25, 1974
This Executive Order created the National Nutrition Council as the highest policy-making and coordinating body on nutrition
PD 491
(Year)
Promulgation of EO No. 234
1987
Reorganization Act on the NNC
Reaffirmed the need for an intersectoral national policy-making and coordinating body on nutrition; expanded the membership of NNC to include DBM, DOLE, DTI, NEDA, DSWD
EO No. 234
Date of promulgation of EO No. 234
22 July 1987
(Year)
AO No. 88
1988
Administrative Order No. _____ named the Department of Agriculture as NNC’s chair
88
(Year)
Transferred NNC from the DA to the DOH
2005
Executive order that transferred NNC from the DA to the DOH
Executive Order No. 472
Year of EO No. 472
30 November 2005
Department that sustains Garantisadong Pambata activities as a means to reduce childhood illness and eliminate micronutrient malnutrition
Department of Health
Department that spearheads implementation of the food fortification program and monitors compliance to the Food Fortification Act 2000
Department of Health
Department that monitors compliance to the Act of Salt Iodization Nationwide (ASIN) Law and reports on the status of its implementation to the Salt Iodization Advisory Boards (SIAB)
Department of Health
Department that enforces strict compliance to EO 51 or the Breastfeeding Code to protect the general public from the effects of unethical promotion of breastmilk substitutes and infant feeding formula
Department of Health
Department that increases productivity and real incomes of farmers and fisherfolk
Department of Agriculture
Implement RA 8435 “Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act”
Department of Agriculture
Department that technical assistance to the local government units in implementing the home and community food production program
Department of Agriculture
Department that organizes nutrition committee at the provincial, city, municipal, and barangay levels
Department of Interior and Local Government
Department that participates in the conduct of National and Local Search for Outstanding LGUs in Nutrition
Department of Interior and Local Government
Department that facilitates the provision of seeds, planting materials and fingerlings, and animal stocks to farming and fisherfolk families
Department of Agriculture
Department that ensures appropriate budget for nutrition program and projects of the NNC member
Department of Budget and Management
Department that strengthens the RA 7394 “Consumer Act of the Philippines”
Department of Technology and Industry