Course Description
Nutrition in public health care and tools for successful management and delivery of nutrition services, including knowledge and experience conducting community assessment, program planning/design and implementation, and evaluation as related to nutritional care. Designed to provide experiential learning in the community and public health settings.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students are required to prepare and present 2 lectures on a specific public health issue.
Athena Title
Public Health Nutrition
Prerequisite
NUTR 4050/6050 or NUTR 4510/6510
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To relate the social, economic, psychological, behavioral, and environmental factors to food availability and the health and nutritional status of populations. To recognize population groups at risk and those with special needs. To understand the role and skills needed to work with diverse population groups. To define the roles and responsibilities of a public health nutritionist. To identify the components of successful delivery of quality nutrition services. To discuss public health programs and policies involved in the delivery of nutrition care for individuals throughout the life cycle. To learn effective nutrition interviewing and counseling strategies, demonstrate counseling skills, and document an effective nutrition plan. To learn how to conduct a community nutrition assessment. Conduct nutrition needs assessment of population group(s) in an assigned community. Prepare a report of the community assessment to be shared with stakeholders. Develop a program/intervention to be implemented at the community level to address the nutrition/public health problem identified during the community assessment. Write a grant proposal to solicit funding for the implementation of the program/intervention developed. To understand the role of the nutrition manager and components of successful nutrition services management. Students practice skills learned in class in the greater community by using their nutrition assessment and interviews to create proposed programs and draft grants that would be appropriate. Grant proposals are submitted to the course instructor, and shared with peers, all of whom review and critique the proposal. Students interview members of the public at large who may use public health services so that students can determine that needs identified by providers of services align with the needs as identified by recipients of these services. Community assessment reports are shared with all interested stakeholders and these stakeholders are encouraged to provide feedback. Examples of stakeholders include county-wide directors of the Dept. of Health, WIC staff and clinic managers, physical education teachers and community leaders.
Topical Outline
Opportunities in Community Nutrition Policy Making The Health Care Industry Nutrition Policy and Monitoring Community Assessment Program Planning Designing Community Interventions Nutrition Education Marketing Nutrition Programs Program Management and Grant Writing Community Nutrition in the Life Cycle Domestic Hunger and Food Assistance Programs
Syllabus