Dissecting Nutrition Issues for Children with Community Health workers
Urgent actions
Reduction in breast feeding among mothers' especially teen mothers, working mothers and general population of lactating mothers. The action needed to address this was to provide awareness to all pregnant and lactating mothers on the importance of breastfeeding and how it provides the required nutrition's for the child. Children of school going age eat and buy unhealthy foods at the school The action proposed was to engage school heads and committees to advocate for regulation of the 'school markets" which sells unhealthy foods for children Teen pregnancy and addressing poor nutrition outcomes ... Leer másfor children of this group. This group requires capacity building since they are hard to get and are not willing to breast feed at all. The team proposed to engage them in platforms where they are accessible like social media to promote breastfeeding and address myths and misconceptions. Training parents on nutrition to address food production, food preparation and choices on food at household level. In general, the participants felt there is need to intensify training of households on food production, [reparation and choices. lessons from indigenous practices were proposed to be adapted for all age groups. Leer menos



