Integrating the seven essential nutrition action into the six health contacts
You will have six health contacts with mothers and children in your community. Nutrition behaviour change communication and promoting the seven essential nutrition actions will be an important element within these six health contacts.
The table below outlines what the six health contacts are, and the key nutrition action messages you need to communicate at each contact.
Delivery of the key essential nutrition action messages
When does breastfeeding appear as a key message within the seven essential nutrition action a key message and why is it so important?
Nutrition behaviour change communication on essential nutrition action components can also be given as part of other health programme contacts including child survival interventions (such as community IMNCI and community nutrition programmes), national immunization days and other infectious diseases control programmes.