IGNOU MFN-06
- Public Nutrition,
Latest Solved Assignment
(July 2024 - January 2025)

Section A -Descriptive Questions

1. Explain the following briefly
a) Health service delivery system in India
b) Role of any one food-based strategy in combating public nutrition problems in our country
c) Three goals of SDGs of importance in public nutrition ?

2. a) Present the WHO classification of PEM in a community.
b) Briefly describe the measures/approaches which are being adopted to prevent Vitamin A deficiency in the community.

3. a) Discuss the three indicators of nutrition in the community.
b) Discuss the relationship between fertility, nutrition and quality of life.

4. a) Present the use of anthropometric measures in nutritional status assessment.
b) Briefly explain indirect assessment of nutritional status in community.

5. a) Explain the following methods for nutritional assessment:
i) Biochemical assessment
ii) Individual diet survey
iii) Qualitative diet survey
iv) Clinical assessment

6. a) Enumerate the major agencies involved with nutrition monitoring in our country
b) Why is it important to maintain an efficient nutrition surveillance system in our country?

7. a) What do you understand by term ‘Supplementary Nutrition’? Describe the components of ICDS programme and elaborate on reasons for limited impact of ICDS on nutritional status.
b) List the various nutrient deficiency control programmes launched by our government. Enumerate the components of any one of the programmes.

8. a) What is food fortification ? Explain fortification as a strategy to combat malnutrition..
b) Comment on the Behaviourist theory of nutrition education.

9. Describe the various steps required to plan, implement and evaluate a public nutrition programme.

10. a) Discuss the role of Face-to-Face method as a channel for Nutrition Communication.
b) Why is community participation important in the implementation of any Nutrition Programme ?

Section B - OTQ (Objective Type Questions)

1. Explain the following in 2-3 sentences each:

i) Self help groups
ii) Village Health Guide
iii) The Delphi technique
iv) Aim of National Nutrition Policy
v) PDS

2. Explain the following terms:

i) Maternal Mortality Rate
ii) Sample Registration System
iii) Low weight-for-height
iv) Qualitative survey
v) Social Marketing

3. Match the following:

Section A -DescriptiveQuestions
There are ten questions in this part. Each question carries equal marks. Answer all the questions.
1. a) Define Public Nutrition. Elaborate the role of public nutritionist in health care delivery.
b) What do you understand by food security? Discuss various determinants of food security.

2. a) What are Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)? Enlist any four SDGs.
b) Give clinical and sub-clinical forms of PEM. What characteristic features you will observe for differentiating between marasmus and kwashiorkor?
c) List various causes of PEM in children.

3. a) Discuss various measures you will recommend for preventing iron deficiency anaemia in community.
b) Explain manifestations and treatment for pellagra in detail.

4. a) Discuss causes and prevention of the following:
i. Fluorosis
ii. Lathyrism
b) Briefly explain different aspects of nutrition economics and their interaction.

5. a) What do you understand by demographic transition? Explain various stages of demographic cycle in detail.
b) Define Nutritional Anthropometry. Explain how it is used as a tool to assess nutritional status of an individual.

6. a) What are biochemical tests used to assess PEM and Vitamin A deficiency?Explain.
b) Describe the methods to assess dietary intakes of an individual.

7. a) What is the objective of NIPI? Describe its programme strategy in detail.
b) Elaborate diet /food based strategy used to combat nutrition problems.

8. a) Enlist various research action programmes implemented in different states of our country to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable groups. Elaborate any two.
b) What skills are required by a personnel manager?

9. a) What is Key informant approach? Give advantages of key informant approach.
b) Explain Delphi technique and Nominal group process technique for situational analysis.

10. a) Elaborate different phases for planning a nutrition education in a community.
b) Briefly describe various channels of communication.

Section B - OTQ (ObjectiveTypeQuestions)
1. Explain the following in 2-3 sentences each:
i) Nutrition policy
ii) ICDS
iii) Indirect assessment of nutritional status
iv) Consequences of malnutrition
v) Classification of goitre

2. Explain the following terms:
i) NIDDCP
ii) Primary health care
iii) Population policy
iv) Ariboflavinosis
v) Community participation

3. Match the items in List I with the items in List II:
LIST -I                                        LIST -II
I Referral services                     A Iodine
II Cretinism                               B Body weight
III Knock-knees                       C Triple A cycle
IV Salter scale                          D Primary Health Care
V NSS                                         E Rickets