Transcript Slides 40-45

Screening
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Mid-upper arm
circumference
(MUAC)
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MUAC<110mm
MUAC>110mm
Community therapeutic care
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Appetite test
Health interventions
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Key health interventions that impact on nutritional status
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Exclusive breastfeeding
Vitamin A supplementation
Integration of health and nutrition programmes, eg reproductive
health, MCH
Preventing epidemics (diarrhoea, malaria, dysentery, measles,
meningitis)
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WASH
Avoiding overcrowding
Vector control
Essential health services
Improving nutritional status of population
Vaccination (measles and meningitis)
nfant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies
Nina Berry/SCUK, Myanmar Cyclone Response, 2008
IFE 1/4
Times more likely to die
if not breastfed
Protection by breastfeeding is greatest
for the youngest infants
Risk of death if
breastfed is
equivalent to one.
Age in months
WHO Collaborative Study Team. Effects of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to
infectious disease in less developed countries: a pooled analysis. The Lancet 2000;355:451-5
Risks of not breastfeeding
Infants 6 weeks – 6 months
10.5 times more likely
to die if not breastfed.
- Diarrhoea and ARTI
- 3 fold higher risk for
hospitalisation for any
cause.
Bahi R, et al. Bull of WHO 2005;83 (6):418-426
(Multi-centre cohort study)
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