Exam Details

Subject Childhood Nutrition : In Health And Disease
Paper
Exam / Course Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development
Department School of Continuing Education (SOCE)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2015
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. India has the highest number of Low Birth Weight babies each year. It is a challenging task to manage the nutritional intake during the just few days and thereafter. As a pediatric nutritionist what guidelines would you give to care takers on nutritional management and selection of appropriate feeding method for LBW and pre-term infant.

Give the recommended criteria you will adopt to identify the following:

Moderate under nutrition and Severe Acute Malnutrition in children.

Overweight and obesity in children

Write a 400 word article for a newspaper on "Risk factors, causes and consequences of childhood obesity".

As a nutrition expert you have been invited for a TV talk show on 'Implications of iron and iodine deficiency in pregnancy and childhood'. In 300 -400 words present the talk you would deliver for poor young women.

Propose a strategy you would advocate for the management of dehydration and diarrhoea in malnourished children.

Present the nutritional and dietary considerations you would fallow for chronic kidney disease in children.

As a diabetic educator you are required to educate a mother of a 13 year old boy (suffering from Type I Diabetes) regarding the use of food exchange take and carbohydrate counting in planning diet for him. Explain the concept you will advocate.

5. As a pediatric nutritionist you are required to prepare handouts for parents regarding foods to include and foods to avoid for children with the following disorders.

In the form of bullet points prepare the handout individually for each of the following disease condition.

Celiac Disease

Acne

Liver Cirrhosis

Galactosemia

6. Write short notes on any four of the following:

Strategies for the prevention of iron deficiency anaemia in women and children.

Consequences of Riboflavin deficiency

Health programmes under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)

Objectives, beneficiaries and programme component of Mid Day Meal Programme

Metabolic Syndrome


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Subjects

  • Childhood Nutrition : Basic Concepts And Physiological Requirements
  • Childhood Nutrition : In Health And Disease
  • Communication and Extension in Rural Development
  • Rural Health Care