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Health and Nutrition Care |
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What is Health and Nutrition Care
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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.
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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/
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Where we are
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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? |
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Scoring
Check those apply. |
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| Criteria
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Adequate |
Inadequate |
No
Reference |
2005 |
2008 |
| 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 |
1 |
1 |
| 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 |
0 |
1 |
| 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 |
1 |
1 |
| 10.4)
Health workers are trained with responsibility
towards Code implementation as a key
input. |
1 |
0.5 |
0 |
0 |
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 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
| 10.6)
These in-service training programmes
are being provided throughout the country. |
1 |
.5 |
0 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
| 10.7)
Child health policies provide mothers
and babies to stay together when one
of them is sick |
1 |
.5 |
0 |
0.5 |
0 |
| Total
Score: |
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3.5 |
4 |
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| for details seeThe State
of the World’s Breastfeeding: http://www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org/countrysubmit.php?country=India |
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