Media Center
 
 
 
 
IYCF Policy and Programme
::
Health and Nutrition Care  


 


 
What is Health and Nutrition Care
Health and nutrition care form critical components that ensure survival and optimal growth and development of infants and young children. Ideally, health professionals should be able to promote optimal infant and young child feeding practices. All professionals who interact with mothers and their young children should attain the basic attitudes, knowledge and skills necessary to integrate breastfeeding counselling, lactation management, and infant and young child feeding into their care. In spite of the fact that key international documents indicate clearly how to achieve the targets by improving the health and nutrition related services, these subjects are rarely touched by the mainstream education system. In fact, they are not adequately covered in the curricula of health providers. In addition, it is also seen that many of these health and nutrition workers lack adequate skills in counselling for infant and young child feeding which is essential for the success of breastfeeding.
Health and Nutrition Care : INDICATOR 10 in WBTi , an innovative initiative of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) Asia for tracking assessing and monitoring the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
know more visit http://www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org/

Key question: Do workers in these systems undergo Skills training, and do their pre-service education curriculum support optimal infant and young child feeding; do these services support birth practices, do the policies of health care services support mothers and children, and whether health workers responsibilities to Code are in place?
  Scoring
Check those apply.
  Criteria Adequate Inadequate No Reference
  10.1) A review of health provider schools and pre-service education programmes in the country indicates that infant and young child feeding curricula or session plans are adequate/inadequate (see Annex 5) 2 1 0
  10.2) Standards and guidelines for mother-friendly childbirth procedures and support have been developed and disseminated to all facilities and personnel providing maternity care. 2 1 0
  10.3) There are in-service training programmes providing knowledge and skills related to infant and young child feeding for relevant health/nutrition care providers. 2 1 0
  10.4) Health workers are trained with responsibility towards Code implementation as a key input. 1 0.5 0
  10.5) Infant feeding-related content and skills are integrated, as appropriate, into training programmes focusing on relevant topics (diarrheal disease, acute respiratory infection, IMCI, well-child care, family planning, nutrition, the Code, HIV/AIDS, etc.) 1 0.5 0
  10.6) These in-service training programmes are being provided throughout the country. 1 .5 0
  10.7) Child health policies provide mothers and babies to stay together when one of them is sick 1 .5 0
  Total Score: ___/10__

 




Where we are
 
India score 3.5 out of 10, falling in ‘Grade D ’ with ‘Red’ colour ,as they had not completely accomplished inclusion of adequate curricula in training of health providers.
for details seeThe State of the World’s Breastfeeding: South Asia Report and India report card
source Assessment of Status of IYCF: Practice, Policy and Program: Achievements and Gaps 2005 see report



What we are doing (As BPNI)

First Regional Workshop
on “Promoting Child Survival, Nutrition and Health by Achieving Optimal IYCF Practices” was organized by MWCD, UNICEF and BPNI
in New Delhi on 5th June 2006 Download Report
Strengthening Undergraduate Teaching of Infant and Young Child Feeding
Workshop on Sensitization of Nodal Senior Faculty Members from the Departments of Pediatrics and Community Medicinem, 5-6 November 2005, INDIA
Download Report



Supporting Documents
NATIONAL GUIDELINES ON INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDING

 

 

Area of Work
 

1. National Policy, Programme and
     Coordination


2. BFHI

3. International Code

4. Maternity Protection

5. Health and Nutrition Care

6. Community Outreach

7. Information Support

8. Infant Feeding and HIV

9. Infant Feeding in Emergencies

10. Monitoring and Evaluation



   
WWW BPNI Website
Download  Acrobat Reader to view PDF documents  


web hosting
visitors so far
© Copyright 2007 BPNI. All Rights Reserved.