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Community Nutrition and Health

Community nutrition is the'science related  to practical application of the nutritional knowledge in the field to identify and solve nutritional problems of population  groups in community. Before we go into the details of the identification of the specific nutritional problems, there is a need to learn  about the concepts of community nutrition and health and their relation. Further it is also essential to know the basis for identifying the nutritional and health problems and basis of classification of nutritional problems. In this unit we will learn about these aspects. 

Objectives 

After studying this unit, you will  be able to: 
  • explain the concept of health 
  • describe the interrelations between different dimensions of health 
  • discuss the relationship between nuqition and health 
  • explain the concepts of community nutrition and  community health 
  • idenrify the nutrition and  health problems of the community  and their causative factors, and 
  • learn how to solve the problems of the community 

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