Nutrition education: introduction, history, need, competencies and skills, framework, training
needs, new development;
• Nutrition education programs: scope and challenges of educating people about eating well;
Biological influences, cultural and social preferences;
• Education and communication strategies for different groups and settings; • Evaluation of nutrition education programs;
• Family and psychological factors;
• Expectancy-value theories of motivation, social and cognitive theory;
• Behavior change as a process, phases of change;
• Addressing multiple and overlapping influences on behavior;
• A logical model approach for planning a framework of nutrition education;
• Understanding communication model, preparing/organizing oral presentations, delivering oral presentation, delivering nutrition education workshops, types of supporting visual aids, nutrition mass media communication campaigns, social marketing;
• Ethics in nutrition education, conflicts, participating process in community coalition;
government and public health organizations and their current programs.
