On August 12, the Ministry of Health announced the “Management Measures for Nutrition Improvement Workâ€, which established the state to establish a nutrition monitoring system to monitor the dietary status, nutritional improvement effects and nutrition-related diseases of the residents; the Ministry of Health will be based on public health issues and nutritional status of the population. And the level of economic and social development, the formulation of national nutrition improvement work plans, nutrition standards and guidelines, and regular release of reports on the nutritional status of our residents. The "Measures" will be implemented on September 1.
According to the "Measures", prevention and control of nutritional deficiencies, overnutrition and nutrition-related diseases to improve the nutritional status of residents are collectively referred to as nutrition improvement. The Ministry of Health develops and implements a national nutrition monitoring plan. The health administrative departments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall organize the formulation and implementation of nutrition monitoring programs in light of the specific conditions of their respective administrative regions. Nutritional monitoring should include food intake, dietary structure changes, macronutrient, micronutrient nutritional status, protein-energy malnutrition, anemia, calcium deficiency, vitamin A deficiency, etc., overweight, obesity and nutrition-related diseases. Status, etc.
The "Measures" stipulate that health administrative departments at or above the county level should incorporate nutrition improvement work into the scope of public health, adopt comprehensive measures, popularize nutrition knowledge, advocate nutrition concepts, and improve nutritional status; and combine the administrative areas according to the national nutrition improvement work plan. The actual situation, the development of relevant nutrition improvement work program and organization and implementation. The China National Center for Disease Control and Nutrition and Food Safety is responsible for the technical guidance of the national nutrition improvement work. Local disease control agencies at all levels are responsible for the technical guidance of nutrition improvement work in their respective administrative regions. The hospital should strengthen clinical nutrition work, and the clinical nutrition department should be established if conditions permit.
The "Measures" also require that the health administrative department should include nutrition interventions into emergency plans for natural disasters and public health emergencies such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, etc., and provide professional technical guidance on the supply and reserve of nutritious foods to prevent and reduce acute nutrition. Bad happens. Nutritional interventions for residents in disaster areas should give priority to children, pregnant women, and the elderly.