KMTC Training Manual: Management of Malnutrition for Nutrition and Dietetics

KMTC's own training manual from the Faculty of Public Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, in six units. It covers the concepts and forms of acute malnutrition with the MUAC and weight-for-height thresholds and the grading of bilateral pitting oedema, the causes under UNICEF's conceptual framework, programme planning from the triple-A cycle and the multi-sectoral approach to problem and solution trees, then management after the IMAM guideline - pathophysiology, triage and referral, the F-75, F-100 and ready-to-use therapeutic food phases, admission criteria and outpatient support. The closing units take the micronutrient deficiencies from vitamin A, iron, folate and B12, zinc and iodine to pellagra, scurvy, beriberi, rickets and osteomalacia, and the high-impact nutrition interventions.