Integrated Child Development Scheme
Question 1. Integrated child development scheme.
Answer.
Launched in 1975, Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) is a unique early childhood development programme, aimed at addressing malnutrition, health and also development needs of young children, pregnant and nursing mothers.
ICDS consists of 4 different components, namely:
- Early Childhood Care Education & Development (ECCED)
- Care & Nutrition Counselling
- Health Services
- Community Mobilisation Awareness, Advocacy &Information, Education and Communication.
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is a government programme in India which provides food, preschool education, primary healthcare, immunization, health check-up and referral services to children under 6 years of age and their mothers.
The following services are sponsored under ICDS to help achieve its objectives:
- Immunization
- Supplementary nutrition
- Health checkup
- Referral services
- Pre-school education(Non-Formal)
- Nutrition and Health information
Question 2. Vitamin A deficiency programmer.
Answer.
Vitamin A Prophylaxis Programme
As a part of the National Programmer of Prevention of Nutritional blindness is to administer a single massive dose of an oily preparation of vitamin A containing 200,000 IU (110 mg of retinol palmitate) orally to all preschool children of 1-5 years of age in the community every 6 months through peripheral health workers. The scheme developed based on the technology by National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad and launched by the ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 1970 is a remarkable success in preventing blindness.
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