Course description
This course aims to provide students with knowledge and critical understanding of nutrition as central to clinical and preventive paediatrics and child health. An evidence-based approach is taken to explain the main priorities in applied nutrition relevant to low resource settings in the context of both hospital and community settings.
Do you work at this organisation and want to update this page?
Is there out-of-date information about your organisation or courses published here? Fill out this form to get in touch with us.
Suitability - Who should attend?
Anyone who works in the fields of international child health would find this course useful. Proof of English to IELTS 6.5
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Upon successful completion of this programme, delegates will be able to:
- Be able to discuss the common nutritional disorders affecting children in the tropics
- Design and implement appropriate strategies for the management of acute malnutrition in the home, in the community and in hospital
- Use standard growth charts, computer software and biochemical indices to measure children and assess their nutritional status
- Define and use appropriately key terms (e.g. stunting, wasting, growth failure)
- Analyse causative factors and preventative strategies relevant to both medical and sociological factors in chosen health situations
- Discuss the normal phases of growth in children and recognise the importance of nutrition at key stages
Expenses
The cost of this programme is £1,150.
Request info
Ads