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Micronutrient Program: PGI Ebarle, Danica PGI Trinidad, Precious B

The micronutrient supplementation program aims to achieve better health outcomes and equitable access to healthcare. Its objectives are to reduce malnutrition disparities, provide vitamins and minerals to treat or prevent deficiencies, implement key interventions like supplementation, fortification, and education on a large scale. The program prioritizes low birth weight infants, children 6-59 months, pregnant/lactating women, and females 10-49 through supplements given in the right dosage. Its goal is to reduce mortality from nutrition-related diseases by reducing underweight, anemia, and iodine deficiency in children under five. The program targets providing micronutrients to 90% of under-five children.

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Micronutrient Program: PGI Ebarle, Danica PGI Trinidad, Precious B

The micronutrient supplementation program aims to achieve better health outcomes and equitable access to healthcare. Its objectives are to reduce malnutrition disparities, provide vitamins and minerals to treat or prevent deficiencies, implement key interventions like supplementation, fortification, and education on a large scale. The program prioritizes low birth weight infants, children 6-59 months, pregnant/lactating women, and females 10-49 through supplements given in the right dosage. Its goal is to reduce mortality from nutrition-related diseases by reducing underweight, anemia, and iodine deficiency in children under five. The program targets providing micronutrients to 90% of under-five children.

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MICRONUTRIENT

PROGRAM
PGI Ebarle, Danica
PGI Trinidad, Precious B.
GOAL
● Achievement of better health outcomes, sustained health financing and
responsive health system by ensuring that all Filipinos especially the
disadvantaged group have equitable access to affordable health care
OBJECTIVES
1. Contribute to the reduction of disparities related to nutrition through a focus on
population groups and areas highly affected or at risk to malnutrition
2. To provide vitamin A capsules, iron and iodine supplements to treat or prevent
specific micronutrient deficiencies
3. Go to scale with key interventions on micronutrient supplementation, food
fortification, salt iodization and nutrient education
4. Revive, identify, document and adopt good practices and models for nutrition
improvement
5. Build nutrition human resource in relevant departments/agencies
INTERVENTIONS/STRATEGIES EMPLOYED OR IMPLEMENTED

1. Micronutrient Supplementation
- is the provision of pharmaceutically prepared vitamins and minerals for treatment or
prevention of specific micronutrient deficiency
1. Food Fortification
- the addition of essential micronutrients to widely consumed food product at levels above its
normal state
1. Improving diet/dietary diversification
- the adoption of proper food and nutrition practices through nutrition education food
production and consumption
1. Growth monitoring and promotion
- is an educational strategy for promoting child health, human development and quality of
life through sequential measurement of physical growth and development of individuals in
the community
MICRONUTRIENT
SUPPLEMENTATION
PROGRAM
INTRODUCTION
● Adopted in response to the micronutrient malnutrition in the country
● Overall policy is contained in the DOH AO No. 2010-0010 entitled “Revised Policy on
the Micronutrient Supplementation to support Achievement of 2015 MDG Targets to
reduce under five and maternal deaths and address micronutrient needs of other
population groups”
● Population group being prioritized:
○ Low birth weight infants
○ 6-59 months old
○ pregnant and lactating women
○ Female adolescents (10-14 years old)
○ Non pregnant and non lactating women of reproductive age (15-49 years old)
● Supplements should be given in the right dosage, timing, frequency and duration
according to the needs of the priority groups
VISION
Empowered healthy and well-nourished Filipino families

MISSION
DOH and partners shall align their strategic actions and exert collective and
unified efforts to create a supportive environment for a sustainable and improved
nutrition development
GOAL
To reduce mortality and morbidity due to nutrition-related diseases.

OBJECTIVES
To reduce the prevalence of underweight, anemia and iodine-deficiency
disorder among under five children.

PROGRAM TARGET
To provide micronutrients to 90% of the under-five children
PROGRAM STRATEGIES

● Target the nutritionally at risk and vulnerable. Priority is given to areas with
high prevalence of undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies among under
five children.
● Promote infant and young child feeding practices in various settings to reduce
the prevalence of underweight and stunted under five children.
● Integrate and strengthen nutrition services in the maternal continuum of care.
● Promote universal access to the standard child survival package of
interventions
MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION
Crucial for child survival as it significantly reduces:
● Risk from mortality by 23-34%
● Deaths due to measles by about 50%
● Deaths due to diarrhea by about 40%

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