Organization: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Registration deadline: 31 Mar 2017
Starting date: 03 Apr 2017
Ending date: 13 Apr 2017
http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/courses/child-nutrition
3 good reasons to study
- Nutrition is key for child health, and what we teach is relevant, varied, evidence informed and up to date, comprising of undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, as well as overweight; diagnostics, treatment and prevention, clinical as well as public health aspects, epidemiology as well as nutrition policy.
- Lecturers are recognised subject experts, and are enthusiastic about the topics, and about the opportunity to share their knowledge with you. Many are clinicians and researchers with working experience in resource-poor settings.
- You will enjoy the atmosphere of LSTM and the city, and meet many like-minded people.
This course aims to provide you with knowledge and critical understanding of nutrition as central to clinical and preventive paediatrics and child health. An evidence-based approach is taken to explain the main priorities in applied nutrition relevant to low resource settings in the context of both hospital and community settings.
Student Comment - "I have learnt so much from this course. Although I had some knowledge of child nutrition, but the way the sessions were organised was amazing. The course convenor made sure that all the lecturers were high quality and experience. There was enough time for feedback and to ask questions and the class was very interactive"
Nutrition and health in the context of the mother and child:
- How maternal nutritional status affects the foetus, newborn baby and infant
- Focus on issues related to fetal growth, breast milk and breast feeding and how changes in maternal behaviour can benefit or adversely affect her child
- Maternal anaemia (and its related nutritional causes) and maternal dietary practices in relation to recommended dietary allowances
- Importance of maternal nutrition for child health
- Nutritional intervention strategies
Assessment of nutritional status:
- Frequently used definitions and how these are derived and applied in nutritional assessment
- Data will be presented for analysis with reference to growth monitoring practices
- Biochemical assessment of malnutrition, with evaluation on how these components relate to current theories on the pathogenesis of malnutrition in children
- Vitamin deficiencies and bone mineralisation, folate metabolism, and protein-energy malnutrition
- Methodologies related to dietary assessments
Aetiology and prevention of malnutrition in children:
- Causative factors and preventive strategies relevant to the problem of malnutrition in children
- Feeding practices including breast feeding, complementary feeding and over-nutrition
- Synthesising components into a practical model for designing and implementing nutrition interventions
- Sociological and medical approaches to understanding community nutritional status
Diagnosis and management of severe malnutrition:
- Clinical diagnosis of severe acute malnutrition is central for effective treatment, within the framework of the WHO Training Manual
How to register:
Applications are online through our website - http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/courses/child-nutrition
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