Monitoring public health nutrition capacity development

Shrimpton, Roger; Miller, Margaret; Nishida, Chizuru; Delisle, Hélène; Spies, Lenore; Blaney, Sonia

doi:10.26596/wn.20178162-70

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“…Robust and high quality educational initiatives from the universities need to be supplemented with strong government leadership and resource commitment to creating and nurturing the PHN cadre (4,16,22,23,25). Indian resources need to be invested in IndianWorld Nutrition 2017;8 (2) led nutrition research programmes which foster international collaborations, in nutrition faculty development and in curriculum revisions.…”

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Postgraduate Nutrition Education in India

Khandelwal¹,

Paul

Haddad³

2017

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Postgraduate Nutrition Education in India

Khandelwal¹,

Paul

Haddad³

2017

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“…Indeed, if capacity building efforts only consider the workforce level, without considering the community, organisational and system-wide dimensions, the effectiveness and the sustainability of any such efforts are likely to be short-lived. Such broad capacity building efforts should be part of a national nutrition workforce strategy which should be measured through multiple indicators, including the numbers of frontline workers at both facility and community level by sector, as well as the nutrition training they have had (Shrimpton et al, 2017). Only by adopting such a national nutrition workforce strategy and implementation plan can the six global nutrition targets to be achieved by 2025 be realized, which now include both under and overnutrition of mothers and their young children (WHO, 2012).…”

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Care groups and community-based approaches for improved maternal and child survival and development

Shrimpton

2020

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A recent discussion paper published in World Nutrition has once again confirmed the importance of "Care Groups" for improving maternal and child undernutrition (Ncube-Murakwani et al. 2020). The critical factors considered responsible for the 7 percentage point reduction in young child stunting in rural Zimbabwe due to the Care Groups of the Amalima program included 1) conducting formative research; 2) ensuring context specific approaches and adaptive management; 3) leverage on social capital and cohesion; 4) investing in human capital; 5) prioritising quality assurance and reviews. These factors are largely in agreement with the those described in another review by Perry et al. (2015) which the authors cite. Another relevant review article on critical design elements of community-based nutrition programmes was also published in World Nutrition (Shantha & Shrimpton, 2017). But in addition to the points listed above, Ncube-Murakwani et al. provide no real description of the true origins of the concept of "Care" in nutrition programmes, which is something this commentary aims to provide.

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