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Definition of community - ✅✅ Community is a grouping of people residing in a
specific locality who interact and connect through a definite social structure to
fulfill a wide range of daily needs
Four components of community - ✅✅ People
A location in space
Social interaction
Shared values
Communities can be viewed on how many different scales? - ✅✅
Global
National
Regional
Local
What is community nutrition? - ✅✅ Community nutrition is a discipline that
strives to improve health, nutrition, and well-being of individuals and groups
within communities
It is founded on the sciences of epidemiology, food, nutrition, and human behavior
Three major areas of community nutrition - ✅✅ People
Policy
Programs
People - ✅✅ individuals who will benefit from community nutrition programs
and services
Policy - ✅✅ course of action chosen by public authorities to address a given
nutritional problem, accomplished through laws, regulations, and programs
Program - ✅✅ Is the instruments used to seek behavior changes that improve
nutritional status and health
Current leading causes of death in the US - ✅✅ Heart disease, some types of
cancer, stroke, and diabetes
, List and describe the three types of prevention efforts - ✅✅ 1. Primary
prevention - preventing disease by controlling risk factors
Risk factors are factors that increase the probability of acquiring a disease.
2. Secondary prevention - detecting disease early through screening and other
forms of risk appraisal
3. Tertiary prevention - treat and rehabilitate people with illness or injury
Community nutrition - ✅✅ refers to the program funded by either the federal
government or a private group
Programs like WIC funded by federal government or worksite weight management
program funded by a private group are examples of nutrition program whose target
is the community.
Community nutrition may be broader than the public health nutrition
Public health nutrition - ✅✅ programs are conducted and founded by a
government agency whose official mandate is the delivery of health services to
individuals living in a particular area
Educational requirements of community and public health nutritionist - ✅✅
They could have a undergraduate level training
Or a graduate-level training
Minimum education requirements are bachelors
Practice settings of community nutritionist - ✅✅ Community dietitians are
always registered RD and tend to work in:
Hospitals
Clinics
Health maintenance organizations
Voluntary health organizations
Worksites, and other nongovernment settings
Some work in federal, state, and municipal health agencies
Practice settings of public health nutritionist - ✅✅ some are RD or LD; provide
nutrition services through government agencies, and often have a master's in public
health nutrition