{"id":6072,"date":"2020-02-01T16:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2020-02-01T16:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:27:41","slug":"health-and-nutrition-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/health-and-nutrition-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and nutrition awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: governance: Health<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/health.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6073\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/health.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many developing nations including India are presently dealing with severe health concerns at both ends of the nutrition-spectrum bearing dual burden of malnutrition.<br \/>\n\u2022 Socio-economic\/industrial development coupled with lifestyle changes have led to drastic shift in disease pattern from communicable to non-communicable diseases. Disparity in social justice\/equity adds to the existing concerns.<br \/>\n\u2022 In the current scenario, a paradigm shift from curative to preventive approach to disease is a prerequisite at individual as well as mass level.<br \/>\n\u2022 Health promotion approach is envisaged to empower the population to take well informed and rational health-related choices. Effective communication strategies for generating awareness and greater community engagement using locally available resources\/technology supported with healthy policies is need of the hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Few Initiatives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>POSHAN Abhiyan has been launched as a Jan Andolan.<br \/>\n\u2022 Mera Aspatal (My Hospital) is a Ministry of Health initiative to receive patient feedback for the services received at the hospital through user friendly multiple channels such as SMS and web portals. It aims at helping the government to take appropriate decisions for enhancing the quality of healthcare delivery.<br \/>\n\u2022 MoHFW has adopted a strategy of organizing Health Melas to provide health education and early diagnosis besides providing health care services completely free of cost.<br \/>\n\u2022 The \u2018Eat Right India\u2019 movement incorporates mass media, including social media, as part of its outreach to generate public awareness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way Forward:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is important to use a combination of evidence-based and behaviourally focused educational strategies that involve active participation of students, school\/college staff and wider community.<br \/>\n\u2022 Schools should be permitted to adapt and prioritize elements of the curriculum as per the local scenario, availability of the resources as well as population needs.<br \/>\n\u2022 According to FAO, by linking the curriculum to local food cultures and biodiversity, the elements of cultural preservation and environment sustainability can be effectively incorporated into a more integrated approach.<br \/>\n\u2022 Masses need to be educated to grow, harvest and prepare nutritious seasonal produce in their local settings.<br \/>\n\u2022 A positive step that is being taken India is banning the sale or serving of junk food\/sugarsweetened beverages in school\/college cafeterias and stores in and around school premises to promote healthy food\/drinking water.<br \/>\n\u2022 All health and nutrition interventions should be designed for long term sustainability.<br \/>\n\u2022 There is a dire need for academicians to prioritise educational interventions on optimal dietary practices and cost effective policies; monitor and evaluate positive health indicators and policy outcomes.<br \/>\n\u2022 Various advocacy groups\/NGOs need to join hands with scientists to disseminate best health\/nutrition related practices to the masses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: governance: Health Introduction: Many developing nations including India are presently dealing with severe health concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-6072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}