Community Nutrition

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Community Nutrition

• M. Burns
• FCS 3756

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Community Nutrition

• Discipline striving to improve the health,
  nutrition, and well-being of individuals and
  groups within communities
• Definition of a community
• Community nutrition v. public health

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Three areas
Policy
People
Programs
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Community Interventions

• Components of health
• Health promotion
• Changing human behavior through planned
  interventions

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Levels of Intervention
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Healthy People 2010

• Goals
• Increase quality and years of a healthy life
• Eliminate health disparities
• www.health.gov/healthypeople

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Community Nutritionists

• Build awareness of a health problem
• Change lifestyles
• Create a supportive environment for change
• Behave ethically

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What is ethics?

• Your thoughts
• Philosophical discipline dealing with what is
  morally good and bad or right and wrong.
• Code of Ethics

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Ethical decision making

• Autonomy
• Beneficence
• Non-maleficence
• Justice