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

Documents :
Content and Avanced Readings (ZIP, 3.87Mb)
Sessions 1-3 (ZIP, 2.55Mb)
Sessions 4-6 (ZIP, 11.17Mb)
Sessions 7-9 (ZIP, 13.66Mb)
Sessions 10-12 (ZIP, 3.00Mb)
Sessions 13-15 (ZIP, 38.59Mb)
Sessions 16-18 (ZIP, 19.79Mb)
Sessions 19-20 (ZIP, 5.17Mb)
Sessions 21-22 (ZIP, 1.87Mb)
Sessions 23-24 (ZIP, 12.73Mb)

This resource is listed under:

Themes : Breastfeeding, general, Emergency, general, Household Food Security and community nutrition, general, Micronutrients, general, Nutrition and health/disease, general, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS, general, Nutrition assessments and M&E, general, Nutrition planning, policy and programme, general, Assessments and Monitoring, Diarrhoea, Food Aid, Food Aid, HTP module 01, HTP module 06, HTP module 07, Hygiene, water and sanitation, Infant feeding in emergencies, Infant, Young Child Feeding, Infections, Malaria, Micronutrient deficiencies, Micronutrient deficiencies, PMTCT, PMTCT, PMTCT, Rapid Assessments, Supplementary feeding, Supplementary feeding, Treatment of severe acute malnutrition, Treatment of severe acute malnutrition

Resource types : PPTs and audio-visuals, Training material

Working groups : Nutrition in Emergencies