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Health examination
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Basic studies on community nutrition
Studies have been conducted to assess the health and nutrition status of primitive tribal, refugees of Bangladesh and nutrition & health and psychological profile of institutionalized children were also carried out. Impact of drought on diet and nutritional status of population of various states viz. Andhra
Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Orissa was carried out. The continuous data collection on diet and nutritional status of population through NNMB and the one time assessment of diet and nutrition status of the community at district level through the project “Nutrition Profile of India”, were also carried out. Nation-wide surveys on IDD are also being carried out
by this division.
Operational
Research
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Horticulture intervention programme was carried out for nutrition improvement by encouraging home gardening, would increase the
GLV consumption and thereby promotes the vitamin ‘A’
status.
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Social marketing approach in the prevention of micronutrient deficiency
especially vitamin ‘A’ deficiency was also
carried.
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Diet and nutritional status of the special age groups such as adolescents and elderly people were also carried out. The results revealed that both the groups were subsisting on inadequate diets and their diets were
efficient of almost all the nutrients. About half of the elderly were suffering from CED and the prevalence of
under nutrition was about 53% and 40% in adolescent boys and girls respectively.
Evaluation Studies and the findings
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Evaluation of Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Programme
(TINP): The result shows that the reduction of severe grade undernutrition was 48% as against the target of
50%.
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End line evaluation of ICDS in Andhra Pradesh and
Orissa: The results indicated that there was a marked reduction (>50%) in Grade III & IV under nutrition in Andhra Pradesh while it was marginal (12-15%) in the state of
Orissa.
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Integrated Child Development Services
(ICDS) in Andhra Pradesh under APER baseline survey in rural and tribal projects. Among the rural areas about 68% - 82% of mothers of 0-72 months children utilized at least one of the ICDS services and 39% of the pregnant and lactating women utilized at least once ICDS
services.Similarly, more than three fourths of the target population was wailing ICDS services in tribal areas also.
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Other
studies
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Diet and nutrition situation in drought affected
states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan: No
significant variation in the diet and nutritional
status of the community compared to normal
situation, which could be due to better food
security and better management by the State
governments during the drought situation.
2. Based on the studies
on primitive tribal groups and refugees of
Bangladesh, recommendations were made on health and
nutrition needs of these population groups and
submitted the same to the Government.
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