Alterações nutricionais em escolares: proposta de intervenção

Abstract

Nutritional status has a primary role in child growth and development. Nutritional changes can influence the quality of life and expose the child to health risks. The school environment, especially, which caters to children, is an important strategy for improving the children's growth, as it allows promote health education. Thus, the School Health Program (PSE) seeks to expand specific health actions to the students of public schools through actions related to prevention, care and health promotion, including in this context the nutritional assessment of children. Thus, this study aimed to develop a proposal for intervention in order to reduce the number of children with nutritional changes at the Municipal School Teodolindo Pereira in the city of Teófilo Otoni a Minas General. The development of the intervention project was based on the method of Situational Strategic Planning (PES) and bibliographical survey in the databases LILACS and SciELO, with the descriptors: nursing, school and nutritional deficiencies. Consider, therefore, that continuous and joint actions between health, education and family, for the prevention and combating nutritional disorders in children through educational, individual and group activities are highly needed.