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- 1 Nutrition Essentials: A guide for health managers (WHO/Basics/UNICEF, 1999)
In the Nutrition section you will find:
N - 1 Nutrition Essentials: A guide for health managers (WHO/Basics/UNICEF, 1999)
N - 2 Nutrition for Health and Development: A global agenda for combating malnutrition (WHO, 2000)
N - 3 The Management of Nutrition in Major Emergencies (WHO/UNHCR/WFP/IFRC, 2000)
N - 8 Nutrition Guidelines (MSF, 1995)
N - 11 Field Guide on Rapid Nutritional Assessment in Emergencies (WHO, 1995)
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- 1 Nutrition Essentials: A guide for health managers (WHO/Basics/UNICEF, 1999)
Primary Audience: Health managers and practitioners in the field. Provides the most recent nutrition protocols and guidelines, technical guidance for integrating nutrition in health services, checklists for programme planning, training, supervision/evaluation, forming community partnerships, and supporting nutrition interventions.
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- 2 Nutrition for Health and Development: A global agenda for combating malnutrition
(WHO, 2000)
Primary Audience: Those working in the area of health and nutrition. Summarises WHO's approach to combating the major forms of malnutrition and describes the related technical support that the Organisation is providing to its Member States. Summarises activities and achievements in the program's seven priority action areas, namely, PEM, micro-nutrient malnutrition, obesity, infant and young child feeding, national nutrition policy and planning, nutrition in emergencies, and food aid for development. (Unavailable electronically on this site. Contact WHO directly).
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- 3 The Management of Nutrition in Major Emergencies (WHO/UNHCR/WFP/IFRC, 2000)
Primary Audience: Health, nutrition, and other professionals involved in the management of major emergencies with a nutrition component. Deals with initial nutritional assessments; meeting nutritional requirements; identifying major nutritional deficiencies in emergencies; assessment and surveillance of nutritional status; calculating food needs for general and/or selective feeding programs; prevention and treatment of nutritional deficiencies; monitoring of the nutritional status and food availability in households; and, in addition to prevention, treatment and control of communicable diseases. (Available electronically on the WHO internet site).
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- 7 Management of Severe Malnutrition: A manual for physicians and other senior
health workers (WHO, 1999)
Primary Audience: Health personnel working in the medical facilities at central and district level, including physicians, nurses, midwives and auxiliaries. Provides practical guidelines for the management of patients with severe malnutrition, focusing on treatment of severely malnourished children (below 5 years of age) in hospitals and health centres. The treatment of severely malnourished adolescents and adults is also briefly described. Promotes the best available therapy so as to reduce the risk of death, shorten the length of time spent in hospital, and facilitate rehabilitation and full recovery.
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- 8 Nutrition Guidelines (MSF, 1995)
Primary Audience: Field workers working in nutritional programmes in emergency situations. Facilitates the application of fundamental concepts and principles necessary for the assessment of nutritional problems and the implementation of nutritional programmes in emergency situations. Describes nutrition strategies in emergency situations, and how to conduct rapid nutrition surveys and set up selective feeding programmes.
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- 11 Field Guide on Rapid Nutritional Assessment in Emergencies (WHO, 1995)
Primary Audience: WFP and UNHCR staff both at Headquarters and in the fields and IPs. This guide is intended for all those who are faced with the need to make rapid but reliable estimates of the nutritional situation in an emergency as a basis for subsequent action. It provides a simple step-by-step procedure for carrying out a rapid survey of nutritional status from the selection of the survey sample and methodology to the analysis and interpretation of results. The steps are easy to follow yet they are based on sound scientific principles and yield reliable data for planning appropriate intervention.