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NSA Flashcards

1
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What are the 5 forms of NSA Systems?

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  • Survey
  • Surveillance
  • Screening
  • Interventions
  • Assessment System in Clinical Setting
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2
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This NSA System is a cross-sectional study which is better suited for chronic diseases

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Survey

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This NSA system includes continuous monitoring of the nutritional status of selected population groups. This system can also identify the possible causes of both acute and chronic malnutrition.

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Surveillance

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When is screening used?

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  • to identify malnourished individuals requiring intervention
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5
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Before doing any interventions, one must have first done _____

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Screening

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6
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What is supplementation intervention?

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Dietary supplements are products taken by mouth that contain a dietary ingredient that is meant to supplement nutrients in the diet (CDC, 2017)

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7
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What is fortification intervention?

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A way to add vitamins or minerals, or both, to food sources that are staples for most of the country’s population (CDC, 2017)

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8
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Interventions always require ____ and_____

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monitoring and evaluation

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9
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This NSA system only uses a single parameter

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Assessment System in Clinical Setting

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10
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What unique characteristic is present in anthropometric methods?

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Provides information on past nutritional history

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What are the measures in anthropometric assessment?

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  • Weight
  • Height
  • Skinfold thickness
  • Assessment of Body Fat
  • MUAC
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12
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MUAC is measured in the ____________ and ______

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midpoint of acromion process and olecranon process

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13
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MUAC uses and characteristics

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  • Monitor progress during nutritional therapy
  • Give insights on protein energy malnutrition
  • Used for screening malnutrition in emergencies and determining wasting
  • Reflects both past and present nutritional status
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14
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What are the most commonly used specimens in laboratory methods?

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Urine and blood

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What is the most precise, accurate and reproducible among all of the methods?

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Biochemical/Laboratory

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Biochemical methods is used in stages __, __, __, and __ of the Generalized Scheme for the Development of Nutritional Deficiency

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2, 3, 4 ,5

17
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_______ reflects iron status

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Hemoglobin and serum ferritin levels

18
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This is used as an indicator of body’s protein status

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Albumin and other serum protein levels

19
Q

What is the simplest and most practical method of measuring nutritional status?

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Clinical methods

20
Q

This method can provide qualitative and quantitative information about food consumption at the national, household, and individual levels.

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Dietary Methods

21
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Dietary method analysis is done by ______ food item

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Individual Food Item

22
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In the different methods of dietary assessment, this one is the only indirect method

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Ecological Assessment

23
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Ecological factors can aid in intervention planning since it determine the _____ of a nutritional problem

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real causes

24
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In selecting the NSA, we want it to be more _____ to support the interpretation of the results from the other nutritional assessment methods (ABCD)

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extensive

25
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The ecological factors can be grouped as:

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○ Conditioning infections
○ Cultural influence
○ Socioeconomic factors
○ Food production
○ Health service and vital statistics

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27
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This ecological factor is the interaction/synergism of nutrition and infections

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Conditioning Infections

28
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What is the ‘joint action of agents’

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○ Malnutrition lowers resistance to infections
○ Infectious diseases tends to magnify existing malnutrition

29
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Cultural influence is used to understand the ________ of malnutrition

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Local etiology

30
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Enumerate culture patterns

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  • Food attitudes
  • Child-rearing practices
  • Disease-causation
31
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Socioeconomic data is split into ____ and ___ data

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Social data and economic data

32
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What are included in social data?

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  • Population in the community
  • Family Details
  • Education
  • Housing
  • Kitchen
  • Water supply
  • Latrine
33
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What are included in economic data?

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  • Occupation
  • Family Income
  • Tangible Wealth
  • Budgeting
  • Prices of Foods
34
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TRUE OR FALSE: Knowledge equates to behavior change.

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False, low-income households can know healthy food options, but finances affect their accessibility

35
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_____ approximates wealth index

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Tangible Wealth

36
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What are included in food production?

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  • Family food supply
  • Farming methods in agricultural areas
  • Land
  • Livestock
  • Distribution
37
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__________ is data accessed from municipal health offices, other public services that contribute to improvement of people’s health

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Health service and vital statistics

38
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What are the strengths of ecological data?

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  • Can easily be gathered
  • may be obtained from secondary data
  • aids in decision making
  • address diverse causes of malnutrition
  • Effective basis on planning interventions
39
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What are the limitations for ecological data?

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  • Serves only as supplement
  • Should always be used in conjunction with other method
  • Need to only select or prioritize ecological variables to include in study

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