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    National Nutritional Programs Objectives: Integrated Child Development Service Scheme

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    The document outlines several national nutritional programs in India and their objectives. The Integrated Child Development Service Scheme aims to improve child nutrition, health, development and reduce mortality and malnutrition. Other programs target improving nutrition for pregnant/lactating mothers and preschoolers through supplementary food programs. Additional objectives include increasing awareness and production of nutritious foods, and preventing vitamin A and iodine deficiency. However, many programs face challenges like irregular supplies, poor supervision and community participation, and inadequate coverage.

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    The document outlines several national nutritional programs in India and their objectives. The Integrated Child Development Service Scheme aims to improve child nutrition, health, development and reduce mortality and malnutrition. Other programs target improving nutrition for pregnant/lactating mothers and preschoolers through supplementary food programs. Additional objectives include increasing awareness and production of nutritious foods, and preventing vitamin A and iodine deficiency. However, many programs face challenges like irregular supplies, poor supervision and community participation, and inadequate coverage.

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    National Nutritional Programs Objectives: Integrated Child Development Service Scheme

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    National Nutritional Programs

    Objectives

    Integrated child development service scheme:-


    Objectives:-
    • To improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age
    group of 0-6 years
    • To lay the foundations for proper psychological, physical and
    social development of the child
    • To reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and
    school drop-outs
    • To achieve effective co-ordination of policy and implementation
    amongst the various departments to promote child development
    • To enhance the capability of the mother to look after the normal
    health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition
    and health education(S).
    Special Nutrition Progamme (SMP)
    Objectives:-
    • The objective of the programme is to improve the nutritional status of preschool
    children, pregnant and lactating mothers of poor socio-economic groups in urban
    slums, tribal areas and drought prone rural areas.

    Applied Nutrition Programmes (ANP)


    Objectives:-
    • (i) To make people conscious of their nutritional needs
    • (ii) To increase production of nutritious foods and its consumption
    • (iii) to provide supplementary nutrition to vulnerable groups through local
    production of foods.

    Wheat Based Supplementary Nutrition Programmes


    (WNP)
    Objectives:-
    • The broad objectives is to enlarge the scope of existing nutrition programme by
    covering additional beneficiaries, i.e., pre school children and nursing and
    expectant mothers through wheat based supplementary nutrition.
    Balvadi Nutrition Programme (BNP)
    Objectives:-
    • The programme aims to supply about one third of the calorie and half of the protein
    requirements of the pre-school child as a measure to improve the nutritional status. The aim
    is to supplement to bridge the gap between the nutritional requirement and availability of
    nutrients to the child.

    National Programme for Prevention of Nutritional


    Blindness due to Vitamin A Deficiency
    Objectives:-
    • The specific objective of the programme is to reduce the disease and prevent blindness due
    to vitamin A deficiency.

    National Nutritional Anemia ProphÄs Provamme


    (NNAPP)
    Objectives:-
    • To assess the baseline prevalence of nutritional anemia in moth- ers and young children
    through estimation of hemoglobin levels.
    • To put the mothers and children with low hemoglobin levels (less than 10 and less than 8 g,
    re spectively) on anti-anemia treatment.
    • To put the mother with hemoglobin level more than 10 g/dl and children with hemoglobin
    more than 8 g/dl on the prophylaxis
    National Goitre Control Programme (NGCP)

    Objectives:-

    • To conduct the initial surveys to assess the magnitude of the iodine


    deficiency disorders.
    • To supply iodized salt in place of common salt to the entire country.
    • To conduct resurveys to assess the impact of iodized salt after 5 years.
    Magnitude of the problem:-
    ICDS Program:-
    • Practically children 3-6 Yrs and Pregnant & Lactating not covered
    • Irregular food supplies
    • Quality of Nutrition supplement
    • Poor supervision Lack of community ownership/ participation.
    • Nutrition education only on papers Children come only for food.

    Special Nutrition Program:-


    • Beneficiaries wcrc not selected strictly on nutritional status or socio-economic
    considerations
    • Number of feeding days were not strictly adhered
    • The food was shared by the other members of the family
    • Pilferages were reported in the channels of the distribution.
    Applied Nutrition Program:-
    • The scheme could not generate sufficient awareness for the production and consumption of
    nutritions foods.
    • Setting up of poultry units, pisci-culture, beehive keeping and other similar income
    generating activities for self reliance did not make any impact as the people’s participation
    through Panchayat Raj institutions
    Wheat Based Supplementary nutritional program:-
    • It lacks an effective monitoring and feedback system.
    • The efforts made in community capacity development are not satisfactory.
    • The rapid pace of expansion threatens quality control and supervision of services

    National Programme for Prevention of Nutritional Blindness due to Vitamin A


    Deficiency
    • Areas where the programme was implemented poorly, the desired impact was lacking
    • The reasons for inadequatc coverage were irregular and short supply of vitamin A drug
    • Lack of supportive supervision of peripheral health workers by medical officers, lack of nutrition education to the
    beneficiaries.

    National Nutritional Anemia ProphÄs Programme (NNAPP)


    • The budget provision for the scheme is low to cover all the target beneficiaries, who are exposed to risk of anemia.
    • The programme requires estimation of hemoglobin. However, the functionaries are not provided with facilities to carry out
    the hemoglobin estimation.
    • The beneficiaries do not collect or consume supplements regularly simply because majority of them do not feel that they
    require these nutrients,
    National Goitre Control Programme (NGCP)
    • Lack of supportive supervision for quality of iodized salt distributed.
    • Inadequatc co-ordination between salt dealers and foods inspectors
    • Poor co-ordination between various Departments like Food and Civil Supply, Health, Industry, Industry and Railways.

    Balvadi Nutrition Programme (BNP)


    • Female health workers who were busy with family planning work could not achieve the target.
    • Quality of the food supplements provided.
    • non adherence to number of feeding days, lac of cooking facilities.
    • substitution for the meal at the home and inadequate storage facilities at schools.

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