Extra Flashcards
(15 cards)
What is stunting?
Low height-for-age; a sign of chronic malnutrition.
What is wasting?
Low weight-for-height; indicates acute malnutrition.What is underweight?
Low weight-for-age; reflects both chronic and acute malnutrition.
How is malnutrition assessed in children?
Using anthropometric indicators: weight, height, MUAC (Mid-Upper Arm Circumference), and growth charts.
What is MUAC used for?
To quickly assess acute malnutrition in children; <115mm indicates severe acute malnutrition.
🔶 Community-Based Management of Malnutrition (CMAM)
What is CMAM?
A strategy to treat severe and moderate acute malnutrition in children in their communities.
What are the 4 components of CMAM?
Community outreach
Outpatient care for uncomplicated SAM
Inpatient care for complicated SAM
Supplementary feeding for MAM
Why is CMAM important?
It increases treatment access, reduces burden on hospitals, and improves early detection.
🔶 RUTF & Intervention Design
What is RUTF?
Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food: energy-dense, micronutrient-enriched food for treating SAM.
What are key features of a good RUTF?
High nutrient density, long shelf life, easy to eat (no cooking), locally sourced if possible.
Examples of RUTF ingredients?
Peanuts, oil, sugar, skimmed milk powder, micronutrient premix.
🔶 Career Applications & Global Nutrition Actors
Name 3 NGOs or organisations in global nutrition.
Nutrition International
Save the Children
Helen Keller International
What is the SUN Movement?
Scaling Up Nutrition – a global initiative supporting countries to combat malnutrition through multisectoral collaboration.
What careers relate to global nutrition?
NGO program design, public health nutritionist, policy advisor, researcher, sustainability consultant.
What is underweight?
Low weight-for-age; reflects both chronic and acute malnutrition.
How is malnutrition assessed in children
Using anthropometric indicators: weight, height, MUAC (Mid-Upper Arm Circumference), and growth charts.
What is MUAC used for?
To quickly assess acute malnutrition in children; <115mm indicates severe acute malnutrition.
What is CMAM?
A strategy to treat severe and moderate acute malnutrition in children in their communities.
What are the 4 components of CMAM?
Community outreach
Outpatient care for uncomplicated SAM
Inpatient care for complicated SAM
Supplementary feeding for MAM
Why is CMAM important?
It increases treatment access, reduces burden on hospitals, and improves early detection.
What is RUTF?
Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food: energy-dense, micronutrient-enriched food for treating SAM.
What are key features of a good RUTF?
High nutrient density, long shelf life, easy to eat (no cooking), locally sourced if possible.
Examples of RUTF ingredients?
Peanuts, oil, sugar, skimmed milk powder, micronutrient premix.
Name 3 NGOs or organisations in global nutrition.
Nutrition International
Save the Children
Helen Keller International
What is the SUN Movement?
Scaling Up Nutrition – a global initiative supporting countries to combat malnutrition through multisectoral collaboration.
What careers relate to global nutrition?
NGO program design, public health nutritionist, policy advisor, researcher, sustainability consultant.
