Introduction Community and PHN

Question 1

The science and art of promoting and protecting health and well being, preventing ill health and prolong life thru organized efforts of SOCIETY

Answer 1

Public Health

Question 2

Application of science of nutrition for the benefit of the population as a section or a whole

Answer 2

Public health nutrition

Question 3

Achieved when “all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food”

Answer 3

Food security

Question 4

Condition when people do not get enough food to provide nutrients for full productive, active, and healthy lives

Answer 4

Hunger

Question 5

Form of severe food insecurity

Answer 5

Hunger

Question 6

A discipline that strives to improve nutrition and health of individuals and groups within communities by controlling factors thru organized actions

Answer 6

Community nutrition

Question 7

What are the 8 functions of a PH nutritionist

Answer 7

1. Assessor
2. Community organizer
3. Program planner
4. Program implementer
5. Nut educator
6. Researcher
7. Program administrator
8. Program evaluator

Question 8

Condition caused by sustained deficiency, excess, or imbalance in one or more nutrients

Answer 8

Malnutrition

Question 9

Condition caused but consumption of inadequate quantity of food over extended period of time

Answer 9

Undernutrition

Question 10

Child’s weight is less than expected for his/her age

Answer 10

Underweight