TY - JOUR
T1 - Nutrition education tools for primary school children in the Vaal region
AU - Oldewage-Theron, Wilna H.
AU - Napier, Carin E.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank the teachers for participating in this project, Professor Rolf Gaede and his team for the first phase illustrations, Dijana Wilson, Fred Bezuidenhout and Boitumelo Kembo for the graphic design, typesetting and layout, and Sue Neumann from Print Core for printing the NETs. The project was funded by SANPAD.
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - South Africa's high prevalence of malnutrition severely affects children's well-being and ability to learn. According to the World Bank, malnutrition is found in households from all spheres of life, since caregivers are not well informed about healthy food choices and feeding practices. A longterm solution to the problem is to encourage people to grow food and improve their incomes, but a quicker solution is to provide health and nutrition education and services to encourage healthy food choices. This paper describes the development of nutrition education tools (NETs) as part of a nutrition education programme for primary school children (Grades 1 to 3) from low-income households in South Africa. The study used the Food and Agriculture Organization's framework for nutrition education to develop simple, cost-effective, appropriate and applicable NETs.
AB - South Africa's high prevalence of malnutrition severely affects children's well-being and ability to learn. According to the World Bank, malnutrition is found in households from all spheres of life, since caregivers are not well informed about healthy food choices and feeding practices. A longterm solution to the problem is to encourage people to grow food and improve their incomes, but a quicker solution is to provide health and nutrition education and services to encourage healthy food choices. This paper describes the development of nutrition education tools (NETs) as part of a nutrition education programme for primary school children (Grades 1 to 3) from low-income households in South Africa. The study used the Food and Agriculture Organization's framework for nutrition education to develop simple, cost-effective, appropriate and applicable NETs.
KW - Nutrition education
KW - Nutrition education material
KW - Nutrition education programme
KW - Nutrition education tools
KW - Primary school children
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79956143867&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0376835X.2011.570075
DO - 10.1080/0376835X.2011.570075
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79956143867
VL - 28
SP - 283
EP - 292
JO - Development Southern Africa
JF - Development Southern Africa
SN - 0376-835X
IS - 2
ER -