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Priority Nutrition Actions at the
Local Level
•Philippine Nutrition
“score card”
•Priority actions
•So, what then for
Nutriskwela?
NUTRITION
SCORE CARD
Stunting
Wasting
• Vitamin A deficiency
• Anemia
• Iodine deficiency
disorders
Double burden of
malnutrition
• Undernutrition
• Overnutrition
Percentage
70
35
6 mos-<1yr
0
6 mos-<1yr
1 yr
Pregnant
1993
43.6
1998
56.6
53.2
50.7
1 yr
2003
66.2
53
43.9
Pregnant
2008
55.7
41.0
42.5
2013
39.4
24.6
25.2
PRIORITY
NUTRITION
ACTIONS
http://www.thousa
nddays.org/ICN2infographics
Scale up prevention of stunting
How
• Improve the identification,
measurement, and
understanding of stunting
• Discussions on stunting, what it
is, why it is not good
• Call LGUs and others to invest
in height board
• Call on families to have their
children measured
• Share results of OPT Plus
Improve nutrition of women of
reproductive age
How
• Strengthen interventions to improve
maternal nutrition and health – iron-folic
acid supplementation, food
supplementation, good nutrition, birth
spacing
• Call on pregnant women to go for
prenatal care regularly
• Feature nutrition in pregnancy, also in
adolescence
• Call for more interventions for pregnant
women
Support optimal breastfeeding
How
• Implement interventions for improved
exclusive breastfeeding and complementary
feeding practices
http://thousanddays.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/11/breastf
eeding.pdf
Support optimal
breastfeeding
• Exclusive breastfeeding – what it is, why it is important, how
to breastfeed successfully
• Breastfeeding in the workplace and public places
• Say no to infant formula – and why
• Complementary feeding – when to feed, what to feed
(especially animal food) how often to feed
• Community-based support groups – who they are, what they
do, how to support them
• Adequate, accessible, affordable food supply
• Health facilities and work places that are mother-baby
friendly
Prevent infection-related
causes of stunting
How
• Strengthen community-based
interventions, including improved
water, sanitation, hygiene
• Handwashing
• Proper use of sanitary toilet facilities
• Mobilization of communities for
sanitary toilet facilities, clean up of
environment
http://thousanddays.
org/wpcontent/uploads/2014
/11/Overweight.pdf
Dietary guidelines, social norms,
physical activity
• Updated Nutritional Guidelines for
Filipinos – Kumainments
• Nutrition labeling
• Food in schools and work places –
informed choice
• Physical activity – importance, hows
• Call on facilities for physical activity
Micronutrient malnutrition
•
Participate in Garantisadong
Pambata for vitamin A
supplements
•
Pregnant woman: take in ironfolic acid supplements regularly
•
Invest in iron-folic acid
supplements
Micronutrient malnutrition
•
Use fortified foods
–
Iodized salt: look for the Sakto
seal
–
Iron- and vitamin A-fortified flour
–
Iron-fortified rice
–
Processed food with Sangkap
Pinoy Seal
• In emergency
and nonemergency
situations
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