Nutrition Education: Principles, approaches and strategies

Type
Book
Authors
Ruiz ( Adela Jamorabo-Ruiz )
Claudio ( Virginia Serraon-Claudio )
 
ISBN 13
9789713013118 
Category
 
Publication Year
2010 
Publisher
Pages
399 
Subject
Nutrition--Study and teaching  
Description
This textbook was written to provide college students and instructors in the Philippines a basic reference book that deals with the principles, approaches and strategies in Nutrition Education, with suggested laboratory activities to reinforce learning. Nutrition-Dietics and Education students taking up the course Nutrtition Education as well as nutrition professionals, teachers and health practitioners dealing with teaching or educating people on nutrition will find its publication useful to their work. Included are 8 chapters for readers to appropriate:

Overview of Nutrition Education for better understanding of its relationship to human development and community life

The Nutrition Educator - identifying roles and the required qualities and skills to become competent practitioners

Communication in Nutrition Education to apply communication dynamics in the delivery of effective nutrition education programs

Understanding of the learning process and behavior change: the basic laws and principles of learning; the aspects of human personality involved in learning; theories of behavior change, experiential learning and other methods of teaching and their application

Nutrition Education approaches and strategies to characterize successful programs and appreciate nutrition education efforts to improve nutrition status in the country

Planning and implementing a nutrition education program using the nutrition education planning cycle

Nutrition Education as an intervention highlighting the importance of quality care

Nutrition Education program application to have a hands-on activity in the implementation and evaluation of programs in various settings

Our ultimate objectives is to develop awareness and appreciation of the roles played by proper nutrition, environment, food and water sanitation and safety and the impact of education to improve dietary habits, lifestyle and overall health, by gaining more current knowledge from experts and sensibly applying them to daily living.
 
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