Al-Balqa Applied University

Basic and Applied Nutrition

Midwifery
Prepared By
Eng. Eman Al-Hijazi

2023-2024
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 Unit Six
Organizations Relevant to
Nutrition

• National organization relevant to nutrition.

• International organization relevant to nutrition.

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 Organizations relevant to nutrition

The main goal for food organizations is to maintain optimal

nutritional health of the whole population, and high risk or
vulnerable sub groups, and they emphasizes on health
promotions and disease prevention. Community nutrition
efforts involve a wide range of programs that provide
increased access to food resources, nutrition information
and education, health related care, they also include efforts
to change behaviors and environments and initiate policy.

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 National organization relevant to nutrition
• Ministry of health.
Role and function:
The mandate of The Standards and Regulation Division is to
contribute to the achievement of the Ministry of Health's
corporate goals and objectives by leading the process for quality
improvement through standard setting and monitoring of the
health sector (public and private). The core responsibilities are
therefore to:
• Contribute to policy formulation on health issues
• Develop and maintain relevant standards and technical
regulations for the provision of health care in public and private
institutions.

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• Promote and encourage the implementation of an effective
quality management system.
• Monitor systems and programs in health to determine
compliance with standards and technical regulations established
by the Ministry of Health.
• Maintain an effective regulatory framework supported by sound
legislation for the regulation of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and
other designated products.
• Identify areas for quality improvement and provide guidance for
the development of quality improvement programs in the health
management system.
• Identify and contribute to the development of a legislative
framework for appropriate management of the health system.
• Maintain critical linkages locally, regionally and internationally,
The functions are critical, ensuring conformance with legislation,
standards and guidelines resulting in:
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• Access to safe, effective products of acceptable quality including
narcotice, psychotropic, herbal products and other drugs,
cosmetics, foods and medical devices;
• The importation for sale/distribution to the public of products,
which have prior approval by the Ministry. Those designated by
law are food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices and precursor
chemicals. The importation of all chemicals is also regulated
through the Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Affairs Department.
• Improved healthcare delivery by health professionals;
• The implementation of appropriate health standards &
guidelines;
• The provision of quality service in Health Institutions.
• The regulatory oversight of the Division is national and therefore
spans both public and private health domains.

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• Ministry of education.
The role has two core functions:
1. To manage and implement the health and safety responses at
each code alert level, including establishing and testing the
necessary health and safety processes within the site.
2. To manage students and staff affected by the pandemic.

Responsibilities
Specific responsibilities include:
1. Establishing a pandemic response plan and processes needed to
ensure that the response and actions at each code alert level are
consistent with public health planning requirements.
2. Ensuring, in line with education provider policies, adequate
emergency supplies of tissues, medical and hand hygiene
products, cleaning supplies and masks. These may be difficult to
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3. Setting up a system to monitor students and staff who are ill or
suspected to be ill in the event of a pandemic, including
contacting students and staff who are unexpectedly absent - has
their health professional been notified of their illness? Have
contact issues been addressed? Is someone able to care for
them?
4. Link into and maintain information on the wider welfare activities
within the local community that students and staff may need to
access in the event of a pandemic.
5. Provide health and safety training and advice to staff. Keep all
staff regularly informed of the pandemic plan, including ensuring
information on influenza prevention, how to treat students and
staff that become ill and how ill students and staff will be
supported is communicated and included in induction processes
for new students and staff.
6. Ensure an up-to-date listing of student and staff contact details,
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7. Setting up a process to facilitate/encourage the return of
children, students and staff once they are better or at the end of
a quarantine period.
8. Implementing the response to the "phase alerts" published by
Ministry of Health.
• Coordinating communications to students and staff at different
phases of pandemic.
• Managing students and staff who become ill and informing their
teachers, managers and next of kin.
• Managing students and staff who may have come into contact
with other people who become ill.
• Managing the absence and return of children, students and staff
and their contacts.
• Managing students and staff who are travelling at the time of a
pandemic event.
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• Ensuring appropriate notices are displayed.
• Liaising with parents and other Pandemic Managers within
their cluster or region as required.
• Liaising via their cluster single point of contact to your District
Health Board.
• Liaising with the education sector's liaison person who will be
located at the local Health Emergency Operations Centre
(EOC).
• Implementing the response as advised by either the Medical
Officers of Health or the Ministry of Health via the Ministry of
Education.

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• Ministry of agriculture.
Functions:
The role of Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries is
to create an enabling environment in the Agricultural Sector by
performing the following functions:
Enhancing crop production and productivity, in a sustainable and
environmentally safe manner, for improved food and nutrition
security, employment, widened export base and improved
incomes of the farmers; Key Functions:
1. Formulate, review and implement national policies, plans,
strategies, regulations and standards and enforce laws,
regulations and standards along the value chain of crops,
livestock and fisheries.
2. Control and manage epidemics and disasters, and support the
control of sporadic and endemic diseases, pests and vectors.
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3. regulate the use of agricultural chemicals, veterinary drugs,
biological, planting and stocking materials as well as other
inputs.
4. support the development of infrastructure and use of water for
agricultural production along livestock, crop and fisheries value
chains.
5. Establish sustainable systems to collect, process, maintain and
disseminate agricultural statistics and information.
6. support provision of planting and stocking materials and other
inputs to increase production and commercialization of
agriculture for food security and household income.
7. Develop public infrastructure to support production, quality /
safety assurance and value-addition along the livestock, crop and
fisheries commodity chains.
8. Monitor, inspect, evaluate and harmonize activities in the
agricultural sector including local governments.
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9. Strengthen human and institutional capacity and mobilize financial
and technical resources for delivery of agricultural services.
10.Develop and promote collaborative mechanisms nationally,
regionally and internationally on issues pertaining to the sector.

• Ministry of water and irrigation.

Role and function:
The work of the ministry is divided into the core function, relating to
water and irrigation, and the support function, relating to
administrative work.
The core function includes the following divisions:
• Water Resources Division.
• Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Division.
• Rural Water Supply Division.
• Water Quality Services Division.
• 13Ministry of public welfare.
• Major aspects of current social assistance programs:
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) combined with service provisions.
Transfer cash directly to households, most often through the
women of the household, if certain conditions are met (e.g
children's school attendance or doctor visits). Providing free
schooling or healthcare is often not sufficient, because there is
opportunity cost for the parents in, for example, sending
children school (lost labor power), or in paying for the
transportation costs of etting to a health clinic.
• Household. The household has been the focal point of social
assistance programs.
• Target the poorest, Recent programs have been more successful
than past ones in targeting the poorest. Previous programs often
targeted the working class.
• Multidimensional. Programs have attempted to address many
dimensions of poverty at once.
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• Published news paper & journals.
• Some public health services & organization.
• Nursing & medical association.

A newspaper typically meets four criteria:

1. Publicity: Its contents are reasonably accessible to the public.
2. Periodicity: It is published at regular intervals.
3. Currency: Its information is as up to date as its publication
schedule allows.
4. Universality: It covers a range of topics.

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 International organization relevant to nutrition
• (WHO) word health organization:
The role of WHO in public health
WHO fulfils its objectives through its core functions?
• Providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in
partnerships where joint action is needed;
• Shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation,
translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge;
• Setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their
implementation;
• Articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options;
• Providing technical support, catalyzing change, and building
sustainable institutional capacity; and
• Monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.
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• (FAO) food & agriculture organization:
FAO's targets 2008-2013
Nutrition policy
Promote sector policies and programs for nutritional improvement at national
and community – levels that recognize gender – defined needs, opportunities
and constraints.
Nutrition education
Develop gender - sensitive nutrition education initiatives, training programs and
materials that target men, women, girls and boys.
Food quality and safety:
To reduce disease outbreaks caused by home-prepared food, develop awareness
and educational materials on household handling of food.
Street foods:
improve the quality and safety of street foods through training for men and
women vendors in basic hygiene.
Gender-specific data:
Promote assessments of nutrient requirements, dietary intakes and nutritional
status that analyze gender, age and development stage.
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• (UNICEF) united nations children's fund
UNICEF stands for United Nations Children's Fund. It is a subsidiary
organization of United Nations that was established after World
War II in December 1946. The main aim of the organization is to
provide proper health care and food to children and women of the
world.
Following are some of the functions of UNICEF:
• Providing Basic Education Infrastructure to the world
• Increasing Child Survival rate in the developing world.
• Gender equality through education for girls.
• Protection of children from any form of violence and abuse
• Protecting and advocating the rights of children.
• Immunization of infants from different diseases.
• Provision of adequate nutrition and safe drinking water to children
(USAID) united states agency for international development.
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WHAT IS USAID
What is USAID? USAID or United States Agency for International
Development has a long history of helping people all over the world so
as to make it a better place for them to live in.
USAID carries out U.S. foreign policy by expanding stable, free societies
and creating markets and trade partners for the United States at the
same time. However, its primary role is to promote broad-scale human
progress. Today, USAID works in more than 100 countries. It works on
strengthening democracy, improving global health and offering food
security.
With headquarters in Washington, D.C., USAID's strength is its different
offices all over the globe where we work in close partnership with
indigenous organizations, universities, international agencies, private
sector, other governments, and other U.S. Government agencies.
Besides working for the indigenous people in Colombia, and funding
them. They also offer aid in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle
East. They have working relationships with hundreds of U.S.-based
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private voluntary organizations .
More than half of Colombia's people live in poverty. There are strong
disparities in social services and income, mainly for the ethnic groups,
struggling here for survival. GOC or Government of Colombia is placing
pressure on illegal armed groups and to free the people of their
violence. The GOC, with the help of USAID, is working to, fight
corruption, revitalize the economy and improve the living confidant of
the most vulnerable groups and which are the indigenous people living
there.
USAID is giving full support to the government as well as the NGO's
working in Colombia to help the ethnic groups and the areas affected
by the illicit economy and conflict. They help short-term interventions
to meet the urgent social and economic needs in the previously
ungoverned areas.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
As an agency within the U.S. State Department, the United States Agency
for International Development's mandate includes assisting countries
with disaster recovery, poverty reduction, and the expansion of
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USAID education and training support activities fall within this
mandate and cover six major areas: basic education, learning
technologies, higher education, workforce development,
participant training, and telecommunications reform and
applications.
USAID's current efforts in basic education include activities such as the
Demographic and Health Surveys Education Data for Decision-
Making, which builds on population – based demo – graphic
surveys and provides data for planning and evaluation of education
policies worldwide; the Global Education Database (GED), a
computer – based database of international statistics; and Basic
Education and Policy Support (BEPS).
Learning technologies consist of activities such as Global Information
Network in Education (GINIE). Higher education includes activities
such as the Higher Education Partnerships and Development and
Advanced Training for Leadership and Skills (ATLAS).

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