Integrating Nutrition Assessment & Counselling for Health Providers
This training course focuses on the NACS approach to integrate nutrition assessment, counselling, and support into health service delivery. It covers the components of NACS, its evolution, target groups in Uganda, and the role of assessment and counselling in improving health outcomes. Participants will learn how to identify challenges, track growth trends, and develop action plans for healthier practices.
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Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery Training Course for Facility-Based Health Providers OVERVIEW OF THE NACS APPROACH Session 1.3 Overview of the NACS Approach
Session Objectives By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Explain the NACS approach Describe the components of NACS Discuss elements of NACS that can help achieve better health and nutrition outcomes Explain the supporting elements of NACS Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 2
TheNACSApproach Integrates nutrition into policies, programs, and the health service delivery system Grew out of the Food by Prescription model Has evolved in some countries into an approach for all health facility clients Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 3
NACS Primary Target Groups in Uganda Children under 2 and pregnant/lactating mothers (covering the 1,000 Days ) Children > 2 years with evidence of growth faltering Adolescents and adults in care and treatment programs Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 4
NACS Components: Assessment Nutrition assessment can be used to: Identify medical complications that affect nutritional status Track growth and weight trends Detect diet habits that make it difficult to improve health or that increase the risk of disease Inform nutrition counselling Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 5
NACS Components: Counselling Nutrition counselling is an interactive dialogue between an individual client and a trained counsellor to decide what can be done to improve nutritional status. The client and counsellor: Examine challenges to healthy dietary and IYCF practices Identify barriers to changing behaviours Develop ways to overcome those barriers Plan actions to support healthy practices Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 6
NACS Components: Support Nutrition support includes: Therapeutic and supplementary foods to treat clinical malnutrition Complementary food supplements for children 6 23 months to prevent malnutrition Micronutrient supplements to prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies Point-of-use water purification products to prevent water- borne disease Referral to household food support, home-based care, and economic strengthening and livelihood support Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 7
The NACS Approach Source: FANTA. 2012. Defining Nutrition Assessment Counseling and Support (NACS). Technical Note No. 13. Washington, DC: FHI 360/FANTA Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 8
Multisectoral Linkages NACS must be effectively linked to other health- related services such as: Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) Economic strengthening/livelihoods Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 9
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Prevents diarrhoeal disease Requires comprehensive approach: oPromotion of improved key hygiene practices Handwashing, treatment and safe storage of drinking water, disposal of faeces, food hygiene oImprove access to safe water and sanitation oSupport to enabling environment Focus on one or two feasible WASH practices Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 10
Economic Strengthening/Livelihood Referral to programs that: Promote/strengthen livelihoods Vocational training Income-generating activities Microcredit Protect livelihoods Gardening Savings groups Provide support Social grants Household food support Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 11
NACSSupportingElements KEY SUPPORTING ELEMENTS FOR NACS Health management information system Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 12
Thank you! Questions, additions, and clarifications? Thank you! Questions, additions, and clarifications? Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counselling, and Support into Health Service Delivery 13
