The nutritional status in the community

Course Title

Nutritional Status in the Community: Assessment, Intervention, and Public Health Promotion
The Nutritional Status in the Community: Assessment, Intervention, and Public Health Promotion

Course Overview

This course offers specialized training aimed at enabling healthcare personnel to understand Nutritional status in the community And analyzing the challenges associated with malnutrition in both its forms (deficiency and excess), and their impact on public health and quality of life.

The course focuses on enhancing participants' skills in Assessing nutritional status, identifying community nutritional problems, and designing effective, evidence-based nutritional interventions.It also addresses concepts of food security, nutritional needs across various age groups, and the role of health programs in improving nutritional indicators.

The course content has been developed based on the latest global scientific references, in alignment with trends promoting prevention and public health, and in accordance with the officially approved themes outlined in the activity accreditation dossier.

Course Objectives

General Objectives

• Enhancing healthcare practitioners' awareness of the fundamentals of community nutrition and public health.
• Developing skills for assessing and diagnosing nutritional problems in the community.
• To enable participants to design and implement effective nutritional intervention programs.

Detailed Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understanding the fundamental concepts of nutrition, nutritional components, and their values.
• Analysis of nutritional needs for different age groups.
• Understanding the types and causes of malnutrition, as well as the methods for diagnosing and treating it.
• Assessment of nutritional status at the individual and community levels.
• Designing and implementing evidence-based community nutrition intervention programs.
• Understanding food security concepts and analyzing food gaps.
• Implementing evidence-based practices in community work.

Target audience

• Doctors across various specialties.
• Dentists.
• Pharmacists.
• Health personnel working in public health and nutrition.
• All healthcare professionals interested in community nutrition.

Expected outputs

By the end of the course, the trainee will be able to:

• Assessing the nutritional status of the community using precise scientific tools.
• Identifying priority nutritional problems.
• Designing effective and sustainable nutritional intervention programs.
• Improving nutrition-related health indicators.
• Enhancing food security and public health in the community.
• Implementing evidence-based prevention strategies.

The course is accredited by:

• Jordan Medical Council Fifth Session – June 29, 2025
  1.5CPD
• Jordan Nursing Council 0582/21 July 2025
  3 CPD
• Higher Health Council HHC-ROOT-E-CPD471-6-25
  (3 CPD: Pharmacy Assistant, Nutrition, Associate Nurse, Assistant Nurse)
  (1 CPD – Other Allied Health Professions)