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EAPRO Training for Improved Practice: Public Health and Nutrition in Emergencies

Tufts University,
CDC/Columbia University for UNICEF

Published in : 2003

Available in : English

Keywords : rapid assessment, assessment, food aid, food security, micronutrients, infant feeding

Practical training package for 10 days designed for UNICEF staff covering and public health and nutrition aspects of emergencies from assessment to design and monitoring programmes.

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Policies, Practices and Decision Making
3. Basic Concepts
4. Rapid Assessments in Emergencies
5. Survey Methodology
6. Survey Interpretation and Critique
7.1 Access to Adequate Food: Food Aid and Food Security
7.2 Access fo Adequate Food: Micronutrients
8. Infant Feeding
9. Management of Severe Malnutrition
10. Supplementary Feeding
11. Nutrition Commodities
12. Nutritional and Food Security Surveillance
13. Health Surveillance
14. Reproductive Health in Emergencies
15. HIV/AIDS in Emergencies and TB
16. Water and Environmental Sanitation
17. Principles and Practices of Communicable Disease Control in Emergency Settings
18. Overview of Diarrheal Disease
19. Dysentery, Thyphoid, Cholera
20. Measles
21. Other VPD: Meningitis and Yellow Fever
22. ARI
23. Malaria