Nutrition Surveillance Expert AIHA, Volunteer Healthcare Corps (Western Cape Department of Health)
The nutritional status of an individual is the outcome of a complex combination of interrelated causes. The Integrated Nutrition Programme is implemented in the province to address malnutrition through a combination of direct and indirect interventions. Interventions are based on best practices and evidence.
Data on nutrition and health is being collected through routine systems and surveys. Information at a provincial and district level are not always readily available or adequate to provide a photographic picture of a specific geographic area. Data is available from various sources/collated by different universities and research bodies but there is no system to centralize or pool nutrition-related information from various sources.
The Western Cape Department of Health, in conjunction with the 3 universities, has started a process towards standardization of research tools and relevant information to pool data collected.
Information systems are an essential tool to support management. Having a nutrition surveillance system in the Western Cape would enable monitoring of the situation towards long term planning (including judgment on progress vs. resource allocation) and to better evaluate the implementation of interventions.
AIHA/Volunteer Healthcare Corps is seeking skilled American volunteers to be placed at the Western Cape Department of Health in South Africa to facilitate and document the development processes towards a nutrition surveillance system and M&E in the Western Cape Province.
To get more information about the Volunteer Healthcare Corps program, go to http://www.twinningagainstaids.org/volunteers.html
More information about this specific post can be found at: http://www.twinningagainstaids.org/documents/WesternCapeDOHNutritionSurveillanceExpert.pdf
Data on nutrition and health is being collected through routine systems and surveys. Information at a provincial and district level are not always readily available or adequate to provide a photographic picture of a specific geographic area. Data is available from various sources/collated by different universities and research bodies but there is no system to centralize or pool nutrition-related information from various sources.
The Western Cape Department of Health, in conjunction with the 3 universities, has started a process towards standardization of research tools and relevant information to pool data collected.
Information systems are an essential tool to support management. Having a nutrition surveillance system in the Western Cape would enable monitoring of the situation towards long term planning (including judgment on progress vs. resource allocation) and to better evaluate the implementation of interventions.
AIHA/Volunteer Healthcare Corps is seeking skilled American volunteers to be placed at the Western Cape Department of Health in South Africa to facilitate and document the development processes towards a nutrition surveillance system and M&E in the Western Cape Province.
To get more information about the Volunteer Healthcare Corps program, go to http://www.twinningagainstaids.org/volunteers.html
More information about this specific post can be found at: http://www.twinningagainstaids.org/documents/WesternCapeDOHNutritionSurveillanceExpert.pdf
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